Greystar, the largest US landlord with almost 950,000 rental units, reached a proposed settlement of Justice Department claims that it and other landlords shared competitively sensitive data to generate pricing recommendations with RealPage's algorithms. If the court approves, Greystar must stop using such algorithms, skip RealPage-hosted landlord meetings and cooperate with the government's monopolization claims against RealPage.
Meta Platforms settled a defamation lawsuit by conservative activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Meta's AI falsely accused him of taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and had originally sought more than $5 million. The only disclosed term: Starbuck will work with Meta to remove "ideological and political bias" from its AI.
AI trade groups backed Anthropic's petition to appeal Judge William Alsup's certification of a class action brought by three authors over its AI training, which Anthropic says could involve up to seven million claimants and "hundreds of billions of dollars" in potential damages. Library, author and digital-rights groups also backed the appeal, arguing ownership questions defy common resolution.
Over 21 days in May, a corporate recruiter near Toronto spent 300 hours with ChatGPT, which affirmed his belief that he had found a formula that could take down the internet and power a levitation beam. He asked for a reality check more than 50 times; each time, it reassured him it was real.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared online from May 2023 to August 2025 found delusional exchanges, including ChatGPT claiming contact with alien beings and telling a user they were a "starseed" from the planet Lyra. In another, it said the Antichrist would bring financial apocalypse in two months and biblical giants were preparing to rise from underground.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
The NSW Court of Appeal said a self-represented respondent who used generative AI to prepare her submissions listed a non-existent case, "Tate v Ragg [2004] NSWCA 306", complete with pinpoint paragraphs, among authorities that mostly had little to do with the issues. Chief Justice Bell called the technology's invention of the case a matter of "profound concern", without personally criticising the litigant.
Zscaler ThreatLabz says scammers used generative AI site builders DeepSite AI and BlackBox AI to create replicas of Brazil's State Department of Traffic and Ministry of Education websites, boosted by SEO poisoning. The pages collect CPF taxpayer numbers and addresses and ask victims to pay 87.40 reals ($16) via PIX for supposed exams or job offers.
A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma struck a self-represented plaintiff's motion to disqualify defense counsel because it contained multiple quotations that do not appear in the cases cited, four in its first two paragraphs of argument alone. The judge imposed no sanctions but warned further fabricated citations could bring sanctions including dismissal.
