TUC's Paul Nowak and CWU's Dave Ward joined online safety campaigners in an open letter urging MPs to investigate TikTok's plan to cut over 400 London Trust and Safety jobs, which the letter says would replace them with 'unproven AI-driven content moderation' and overseas workers. The CWU said the cuts came eight days before a union recognition vote; the letter calls it union-busting.
A class action filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco by eleven plaintiffs alleges that Microsoft illegally drove up AI prices through a secret, exclusive cloud-computing deal with OpenAI that restricted the compute available to run ChatGPT. The plaintiffs seek damages for allegedly inflated prices since November 2022; Microsoft says it is reviewing the complaint and that the partnership promotes competition.
NHTSA has opened an investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving software and, in a report dated Oct. 7, cited at least 18 complaints that cars using it ran red lights, crossed into opposing lanes or attempted wrong-way turns; reports are tied to at least six crashes, four with injuries. The agency will examine whether drivers got adequate warning to intervene.
Thousands of Australians have joined a class action against Tesla over its 'Full Self-Driving' claims, according to a director at the firm leading the case, who says many of Tesla's promises on safety, performance and features are "falling flat". Launched in February, the suit covers Model 3 and Model Y buyers and lessees from May 2021 to February 2025.
Far-right figures are spreading AI-generated dystopian videos of European cities changed by migration, AFP reports; Tommy Robinson's June repost of "London in 2050" on X drew over half a million views. Experts say chatbots can easily be guided past guardrails; TikTok banned the creator's account, and the pseudonymous creator sells courses calling conspiracy theories a "great" topic for clicks.
U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer fined Loxley lawyer James Johnson $5,000 after Johnson admitted an AI program, Ghostwriter Legal, produced nonexistent case citations in a filing seeking to postpone a federal drug trial. Johnson must file the order in all pending and new cases for 12 months, was referred to a court-appointment panel review, and is appealing to the 11th Circuit.
The private phone numbers of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Chris Minns appeared on a third-party website reportedly using AI to trawl sites such as LinkedIn. The site claims contact details for 300 million professionals; LinkedIn says there was no data breach, and police and other authorities are investigating.
Colorado's Supreme Court ruled on October 13 that the state's pre-2025 law did not criminalise using AI to generate nude images of real children, so a teenager accused of making such deepfakes of three girls in 2023 cannot be penalised under provisions added in 2025. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr. wrote the legislature took time to "catch up".
A student on the autism spectrum has sued Adelphi University in Nassau County Supreme Court, alleging a professor discriminated because of the student's autism and the school broke its own policies in upholding an AI-cheating finding based on a reported "100% AI score" from Turnitin. The student denies using AI, citing only grammar help from a university tutor.
