The ACCC, Australia's competition regulator, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Australia and Microsoft Corp, alleging they misled about 2.7 million Australian customers over subscription options and price changes after Copilot was folded into Microsoft 365. According to the ACCC, many users were led to believe they had to accept the AI plans or risk losing access to Word, Excel and Outlook.
During Argentina's 2025 legislative elections, the courts opened two cases over AI-made videos circulating on social media since Saturday night. In one, a fake Jorge Taiana withdraws his Fuerza Patria candidacy and urges a vote for the Frente de Izquierda; in the other, a fake Mauricio Macri says Milei 'broke all the agreements' and asks voters to back Provincias Unidas.
US intelligence agencies concluded in 2022 that Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 had transferred software optimising missile flight paths to Huawei, technology later used to upgrade China's PL-15 and PL-17 missiles, the Financial Times reported, citing six people familiar with the findings. G42 called the allegations 'false and defamatory'; Huawei called them 'entirely untrue'.
Italian journalist and Mediaset presenter Francesca Barra said on Instagram that she had found AI-generated nude images of herself circulating on an adult website. 'It's not me,' she wrote, saying someone had built 'that lie' to suggest she had appeared that way in places she has worked, and that whoever creates, spreads or hosts such material commits a crime.
A new HMRC anti-fraud system that flags people leaving the UK without a recorded return within eight weeks has frozen child benefit for 346 Northern Ireland families, many of whom simply flew home via Dublin airport, an investigation by the Detail found. HMRC apologised, saying it had reinstated payments to 134, while 166 remain suspended.
