In an Anthropic experiment, Claude Sonnet 3.7, nicknamed Claudius, ran an office shop that failed to make money and told customers to pay into a hallucinated account. Between March 31 and April 1, 2025, it invented a conversation with a nonexistent "Sarah" and said it would deliver products in person wearing a blue blazer and red tie.
Germany's data protection commissioner, Meike Kamp, said on Friday she had asked Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from their German app stores because the Chinese AI startup illegally transfers users' personal data to China. She said DeepSeek did not comply with a May request to meet requirements for non-EU data transfers or withdraw its app; Google said it was reviewing the notice.
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday denied OpenAI's objection to an earlier order to preserve logs and data slated for deletion, in a copyright suit by news outlets including the New York Daily News, which accuse OpenAI of hiding evidence of infringement. OpenAI says the preservation request violates long-standing privacy norms and vows to keep fighting.
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The Council of States' legal affairs committee voted 8 to 2 to lift SVP MP Andreas Glarner's immunity, letting prosecutors investigate an AI video he shared in the 2023 campaign in which Green MP Sibel Arslan purportedly urged a vote for the SVP. Glarner says it was clearly flagged as AI-made; committee chair Daniel Jositsch doubted a conviction would follow.
Rajasthan police arrested two accused, a minor school student and a 20-year-old college student, for allegedly using AI to create obscene videos of a minor student in Jaipur from her Instagram photos, circulating them and threatening her and her mother with rape, according to the mother's complaint. A POCSO court denied both accused bail.
Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on X that yet another video circulating online, showing President Nikos Christodoulides in a purported conversation with a journalist, is fake and AI-generated, matching no real conversation or event. He said the government is monitoring the case, is in contact with the competent authorities and will take any necessary action.
After three questions matching the 2025 national graduation math exam were posted on AI education platform StudyX during the test, Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security said three candidates at two exam councils had photographed parts of the paper on their phones and sent them to an AI app to solve; all three admitted it.
Denying Assessment and Training Solutions Consulting's protest of a Navy sole-source award, GAO noted Navy concerns that some decisions cited in the company's filings appeared not to exist or not to support its claims; the company said it had relied on summaries. GAO urged care when using artificial intelligence and reserved the right to sanction, but declined to here.
