The U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it deliberately profits from scam ads and fails to keep its platforms safe for children; Meta calls such allegations baseless. The suit cites a Reuters report that Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue, about $16 billion, would come from ads for scams, illegal gambling and banned products.
Instacart has agreed to pay $60 million in refunds to settle an FTC lawsuit alleging misleading "free delivery" offers, undisclosed fees and paid memberships without consent. Separately, research found its AI-driven pricing experiments, using a tool called Eversight, quoted some shoppers prices up to about 23% higher than others for the same cart at the same time.
Spain's National Police in Murcia have placed three boys under investigation for suspected corruption of minors, on suspicion of using AI apps to make and share nude images of female schoolmates. The case began with a father's complaint about images including his daughter; seven more complaints followed, and the file has gone to Murcia's juvenile prosecutor.
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett reposted on X a fake AI video of Jack White saying "Don't even think about listening to my music, you fascists," remarking "That cute girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry." Told the clip wasn't real, he doubled down; White blasted him in a long Instagram post.
Poland has asked the European Commission to investigate TikTok under the Digital Services Act after the platform hosted AI-generated videos of young women in Polish national colours urging Poland to leave the EU, which the government says was Russian disinformation. TikTok says it removed content where it violates its rules.
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A federal judge in Nevada sanctioned attorney Bryce Finley, who admitted five authorities in his filings "were not in fact real" and were "the product of artificial intelligence" that he says his paralegal used. The court struck the filings, awarded the defendants fees and costs, sent the order to the Nevada State Bar Association and dismissed the case.
In an interim order on December 22, 2025, Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora of the Delhi High Court restrained several websites and platforms, including unidentified ones, from exploiting actor NTR Jr.'s personality traits through AI and deepfake technology until the next hearing. The court said continuing availability of infringing merchandise would cause him irreparable injury.
Shamirpet police in Hyderabad have registered a case against an 18-year-old who, they allege, used AI tools to create an image of a leopard near Shamirpet Lake and circulated it online, alarming residents through local WhatsApp groups. Police and forest officials searched the area and found no evidence of any wild animal.
Buyers of XPeng's 2023 G6 were told by staff and the app manual that it had five millimetre-wave radars. They say some cars had only three and allege the manual was later quietly edited, Economic Information Daily reports. 159 owners signed a complaint alleging sales fraud, and one buyer has gone to court. XPeng says it upgraded to pure-vision driver assistance and concealed nothing.
