In an October 30, 2025 letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Senator Marsha Blackburn says Gemma, asked whether she had been accused of rape, invented a 1987 campaign scandal involving a state trooper, prescription drugs and non-consensual acts, citing fake links. Even the year was wrong: her campaign was in 1998. She called it defamation and urged Google to 'shut it down.'
An updated NHTSA crash report shows a fourth crash for Tesla's Robotaxi service in Austin since its late-June launch: a September collision with a fixed object in a parking lot, with no injuries but property damage. As with the first three, Tesla redacted most details, citing 'confidential business information', a practice that makes it an outlier among competitors.
ICE holds a Clearview AI contract worth up to $9.2 million, begun Sept. 5, though a Cook County settlement bars Illinois police from using the company; the settlement does not cover federal agencies. A Biden-era DHS facial recognition policy has vanished from the department's website, though a spokesperson says it remains in effect. Senators have separately questioned ICE's Mobile Fortify app.
A misleading AI-generated image purportedly showing BJP candidate Babulal Soren went viral ahead of the Ghatsila Assembly by-election. BJP spokesperson Ajay Shah blamed the JMM's IT cell. Police registered an FIR against unidentified individuals and are tracing the Facebook post; it is the first such FIR since the Election Commission's directives on AI-generated material.
An Israeli enforcement registrar, Aviad Igra, ordered a self-represented debtor in a maintenance case to pay ₪1,000 in costs after the debtor's request cited non-existent judgments, real ones that said nothing of the kind, a non-existent statutory section and a family-court case numbered 1234-56-78. Igra had previously warned that unchecked citations, including from AI, are forbidden.
