India's Enforcement Directorate has chargesheeted real-money gaming app WinZO and directors Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore, alleging the platform, which assured users it was bot-free, embedded bots and AI to manipulate games, leaving players about ₹734 crore poorer. The prosecution complaint was filed on January 23 before a local court designated for money-laundering cases.
After federal immigration agents shot and killed a nurse in Minneapolis on Saturday, social media users shared images of the scene misleadingly altered with AI. One showed him pointing a gun at an agent when he held a phone; another, "enhanced" with Google's Gemini, changed his face and removed a gun from an agent's hand.
Amelia, a character from the Home Office-funded counter-extremism game Pathways, has become a viral far-right meme, with X users churning out racist versions via Grok since an anonymous account launched it on January 9, per Peryton Intelligence. Posts hit 11,137 on X on Wednesday; the game's maker, Shout Out UK, has received threats now reported to police.
A phishing campaign is emailing marketers and app testers TestFlight invitations to try "OpenAI Advertising GPT," a non-existent product from "OpenAI Advertising, LLC," which is not an OpenAI entity, dangling up to $200 in ad credits, a marketing professional warned on LinkedIn on January 25, 2026. It followed OpenAI's January 16 announcement that it would test ads in ChatGPT.
