A former contractor to the NSW Reconstruction Authority uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with over 12,000 rows of information to ChatGPT between March 12 and 15, exposing data on up to 3000 applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program, including names, addresses, contact details and some health information. The authority, which called the upload unauthorised, disclosed the breach over six months later.
Barely a day after OpenAI launched Sora 2, a journalist said a stalker was using it to make AI videos of her, allegedly while running hundreds of accounts dedicated to her. She said the app let her block and delete the unapproved videos; OpenAI's system card admits Sora 2 failed to block nudity prompts using real likenesses 1.6 percent of the time.
U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee rejected Anthropic's request to dismiss claims by Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO that it enabled Claude users to infringe their copyrights by reproducing song lyrics. The publishers sued in 2023 over lyrics from at least 500 songs. The judge found they plausibly argued that Anthropic could have known of the alleged infringement and profited from it.
Paris prosecutors said they are investigating Apple's voice assistant Siri. The probe follows a complaint filed by the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, based on information from researcher Thomas Le Bonniec, which accuses Apple of collecting, recording and analysing Siri conversations without users' consent. A cybercrime police unit has the case. Apple says it tightened Siri privacy controls in 2019 and again this year.
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The Bombay High Court quashed an income tax assessment of KMG Wires after finding that the assessing officer relied on three judicial decisions that do not exist and ignored a supplier's reply confirming its purchases. The court warned that AI results "are not to be blindly relied upon" in quasi-judicial work and sent the matter back for a fresh assessment.
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Upper Tribunal Judge Mark Blundell ordered Rahat Ullah of Morgan Lane Solicitors to show cause by 13 October 2025 why he should not be referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Grounds of appeal had cited two non-existent cases, citations the judge had seen before in unchecked AI drafting. They were later removed in a way the judge called potentially dishonest.
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ordered MPH International to refile its summary judgment motion with all hallucinated cases removed and no replacement authority. He also awarded the plaintiff fees for work after its opposition. Defence counsel Mr. Russo, who admitted to unverified AI use, must send the order to the State Bar of California and his client.
Old Mutual has warned the public about social media videos that use a fake likeness of its chairman, former finance minister Trevor Manuel, to give investment advice and urge people to invest in products. Manuel said the posts use his image and "artificial voice". He added that he does not give investment advice and is not authorised to do so.
Maharashtra Congress's X account posted a video in which Leh Additional Deputy Commissioner Ghulam Muhammad appears to say Sonam Wangchuk was detained on Home Minister Amit Shah's orders. BOOM found that an AI voice-over and lip sync had been added to footage of his September 25, 2025 press conference. In the original, he did not mention Shah.
