February 2026
206 items on 28 days
Saturday, February 28, 2026
- AI Widow sues OpenAI over husband's ChatGPT spiral and death The Guardian
- HUMAN Suspension recommended for judge who shared fabricated judges' call Sun Sentinel
- AI Doubao's 'virtual' WeChat ID turns out to belong to a woman 金羊网
- HUMAN AI-faked anchors and doctors hawk miracle cures in Kosovo, Albania Kallxo
Friday, February 27, 2026
- HUMAN OpenAI fires employee it says traded on confidential information TechCrunch
- HUMAN Deepfake nude target says Spanish police called it no crime Reuters
- HUMAN Fresno vet clinic warns of AI-faked photos of missing pets KTLA
- HUMAN Gaming sites replace sacked journalists with AI-generated 'writers' Press Gazette
- HUMAN Kenyan contractors say Meta AI glasses footage shows intimate moments SvD.se
- HUMAN Meta sues advertisers over celebrity deepfake ads in Brazil, China Le Figaro
- HUMAN California drivers sue Flock Safety over license-plate data sharing Courthouse News Service
- HUMAN White House AI video puts words in hockey star's mouth Politico
- HUMAN South Asia-run fake sites push AI junk on Paris candidates 20 Minutes
- HYBRID State Bar judge recommends discipline for lawyer over AI-fabricated citations Metropolitan News-Enterprise
- HUMAN Indian rights body issues notices over Anthropic-Pratham child data concerns Social News XYZ
- HUMAN Maine women sue DHS over alleged AI tracking of observers Scripps News
Thursday, February 26, 2026
- HYBRID Dutch groups file summary proceedings against X over Grok nudes NRC
- HYBRID Virginia IT firm settles over AI-written visa-only job ads ICLG
- HUMAN Army dismisses West Point cadet over AI nude extortion DefenseScoop
- HUMAN Bank of Italy warns of deepfake Panetta investment scams Reuters
- HUMAN Teachers among accused in ChatGPT exam cheating racket The Times of India
- HUMAN Kassel court upholds retake bans for students' AI-assisted work stern.de
- AI Woolworths reins in chatbot Olive after tales of angry mother CX Today
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- HUMAN Man, 19, is first in SA charged under deepfake law ABC News (Australia)
- HYBRID Hacker jailbroke Claude to raid Mexican government data, researchers say Bloomberg
- HUMAN Chinese official's ChatGPT diary exposes intimidation campaign, OpenAI says CNN
- HYBRID Face match gets engineer arrested for burglary 100 miles away The Guardian
- HUMAN FBI raids LAUSD chief Carvalho's home in apparent AI chatbot probe Los Angeles Times
- HUMAN Milwaukee officer charged over Flock plate lookups on dating partner Journal Sentinel
- HUMAN FBI warrant pulls Grok prompts in alleged nonconsensual porn case 404 Media
- HUMAN Hundreds of AI-made YouTube videos target Singapore's prime minister CNA
- HUMAN Delhi High Court bars AI deepfakes of yoga guru Ramdev The Hindu
- HUMAN Fake TikTok accounts use AI-cloned royal voice to promise aid The Malaysian Insight
- HUMAN Wanted convict's AI-blended ID photo undone by spouse's tattoo Habertürk
- HUMAN Police say Shanghai man faked food poisoning with AI-forged records Beijing News
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- HUMAN US official says DeepSeek trained model on export-barred Nvidia chips Reuters
- HUMAN Brazilian judge leaves AI prompt in child rape acquittal ruling UOL
- AI Google apologises for Bafta alert using racial slur BBC
- HUMAN Johor police probe AI fakes of state exco pushing bogus aid The Star
- HUMAN Solicitor self-reports after feeding client documents to ChatGPT Legal Futures
- HUMAN Delhi High Court bars AI cloning of Jubin Nautiyal's voice ANI News
- HUMAN Bournemouth man with AI child abuse images avoids jail Dorset Echo
- AI Tencent's Yuanbao swaps New Year greeting for vulgar insult 搜狐
- HUMAN Mother presses Crete professor after son fails for AI copying iefimerida
Monday, February 23, 2026
- HUMAN Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of distilling Claude Anthropic
- HUMAN Canada summons OpenAI over shooter's banned, unreported ChatGPT account The New York Times
- HUMAN South Korea's three main broadcasters sue OpenAI over ChatGPT training News.az
- HYBRID Mediapart finds Mistral's model recites chunks of Harry Potter and Petit Prince Clubic
- HUMAN Tesla sues California DMV over false-advertising finding on Autopilot CNBC
- HUMAN COMESA probes Meta's WhatsApp curbs on rival AI chatbots People Daily
- AI OpenClaw agent ignores stop orders while deleting Meta director's inbox Business Insider
Sunday, February 22, 2026
- HYBRID MPs say police used AI falsehoods to ban Maccabi fans The Jewish Chronicle
- HYBRID Dutch lawyers warned for citing ChatGPT's imaginary case law NL Times
- HYBRID Home Bargains face scan wrongly flags Chester shopper as thief BBC
Saturday, February 21, 2026
- HUMAN OpenAI weighed calling police on future shooting suspect, then didn't The Wall Street Journal
- HYBRID Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached over 600 FortiGate firewalls BleepingComputer
- HUMAN Deepfakes of Portugal's PM and CNN anchor push investment scam Lusa
- HUMAN South Carolina man charged over AI-generated child abuse material The Berkeley Observer
- HUMAN Suspected deepfake cyber specialist turns up at Miami-Dade Zoom hearing WSVN 7News
- AI Claude Code published fabrications to 8+ platforms, user reports GitHub
Friday, February 20, 2026
- HYBRID Judge refuses to overturn $242.57 million Autopilot verdict against Tesla govinfo.gov
- HYBRID Amazon says user error, not AI, caused Cost Explorer outage Amazon News
- HUMAN Microsoft deletes blog that built AI demos on Harry Potter books Ars Technica
- HYBRID Finji accuses TikTok of running racist AI-altered game ads Kotaku
- HUMAN Italy fines eCampus €50,000 over facial recognition attendance checks Il Sole 24 ORE
- HUMAN Delhi High Court shields Kajol's likeness, flags AI misuse ANI
- HUMAN Bank of Greece flags AI fakes of Stournaras pitching huge profits NewsIT
- HUMAN Touba police arrest man over AI voice-disguise sex scam RTS Officiel
Thursday, February 19, 2026
- AI Lawsuit says ChatGPT convinced student he was an oracle Ars Technica
- AI Grok hands out porn performer Siri Dahl's legal name unprompted 404 Media
- HUMAN Police say suspect in Seoul motel deaths quizzed ChatGPT The Korea Herald
- HUMAN Fidesz campaign video stages AI-made execution of a father Reuters
- HUMAN Gordon Rees accused of fabricated citations, months after AI rebuke Above the Law
- HUMAN ESET finds Android malware that asks Gemini where to tap The Register
- HUMAN Former Texas student arrested over AI nude images of students, staff wfaa.com
- HUMAN Galgotias University exits AI summit over Chinese-made robot dog The Times of India
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- HYBRID Appeals court orders lawyer to pay $2,500 over AI-hallucinated brief Reuters
- AI Microsoft admits bug let Copilot summarise confidential emails TechCrunch
- HYBRID Orlando police facial recognition match led to wrongful arrest WESH
- HUMAN Lagos businessman arraigned over alleged AI Peter Obi forex fraud Punch Newspapers
- HUMAN Turkish gendarmes detain four over AI celebrity investment ads DHA
- HYBRID Fake 'Gemini' chatbot pitches nonexistent Google Coin presale Malwarebytes
- HYBRID California appeals court sanctions lawyer $900 for AI-fabricated quotes AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Iraqi PM orders probe into AI tea-serving poet ad CNN
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- HUMAN ZDF airs unlabelled Sora clip in ICE report, apologises heise online
- AI User says Gemini admitted lying to placate him over medical data The Register
- HYBRID Ireland's privacy regulator opens probe into Grok sexualised images Reuters
- HYBRID Spain to seek probe of platforms over AI child abuse imagery The Guardian
- HYBRID India's Supreme Court alarmed by AI-drafted petitions citing fake cases Live Law
- HUMAN Shareholders sue Ostin Technology over alleged deepfake-fuelled pump-and-dump InvestmentNews
Monday, February 16, 2026
- HYBRID ByteDance vows Seedance curbs after Disney cease-and-desist letter BBC
- HYBRID Colombia's Supreme Court fines lawyer for AI-invented laws and rulings EFE
- HUMAN Nine Congress leaders get privilege notices over AI Modi video ABP News
- HUMAN Engineer gets suspended sentence for ChatGPT-forged medical diploma Die Presse
- HUMAN Jersey police probe TikTok deepfakes targeting school staff BBC
- HUMAN Da Nang man fined for AI image of skirted Tet horse Tuoi tre news
- HYBRID Hong Kong judge rejects recusal bid leaning on AI analysis AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Queensland tribunal flags apparently non-existent cases in dismissed appeal AI Hallucination Cases database
Sunday, February 15, 2026
- HUMAN Ex-NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice The Washington Post
- HYBRID Ars Technica apologises for article with AI-fabricated quotes Ars Technica
- HUMAN KPMG partner faces fine for using AI in AI exam afr.com
- HUMAN Augsburg car dealer accused of faking fire with AI image n-tv
Saturday, February 14, 2026
- HUMAN US military used Claude in Maduro raid, report says The Guardian
- AI ChatGPT twice promised a woman her soulmate; nobody showed NPR
- HUMAN Ex-xAI employee says safety is dead as departures mount IT BOLTWISE x Artificial Intelligence
Friday, February 13, 2026
- HUMAN OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of free-riding on US labs' models Rest of World
- HUMAN FTC questions Microsoft rivals on licensing, probes AI bundling, report says Reuters
- HYBRID Motion Picture Association accuses ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 of mass infringement Variety
- HYBRID Canary Islands court fines lawyer €420 over 48 AI-invented citations Noticias Judiciales
- HUMAN NAACP threatens to sue xAI over unpermitted Mississippi gas turbines earthjustice.org
- HUMAN Beauvais prosecutor probes AI fake striptease video of RN deputy Le Figaro
- HUMAN Fake AI chatbot Chrome extensions siphoned emails and API keys SC Media
- HUMAN Court upholds Minnesota doctoral student's expulsion for alleged AI cheating Minnesota Lawyer
- HUMAN Kazakhstan's Higgsfield AI faces scam claims over payouts and promos Qazinform
Thursday, February 12, 2026
- HUMAN Dutch probation service's recidivism algorithm had swapped formulas since 2018 Inspectie Justitie en Veiligheid
- HUMAN Senators say AI toy maker Miko exposed replies to children NBC News
- HUMAN Shashi Tharoor disowns AI video praising Pakistan's cricket diplomacy Mint
- HUMAN Michigan student sues university over AI cheating accusation GovTech
- HUMAN North Dakota Supreme Court sanctions licence-plate litigant $500 over fictitious cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Israeli labour court makes lawyer pay costs over phantom case law AI Hallucination Cases database
- AI Social workers say AI transcribers invent suicidal ideation and fishfingers CARE
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
- HUMAN Radnor parents press school board after AI deepfake harassment charge 6abc Philadelphia
- HUMAN Turkey arrests five over AI-faked officials in investment ads Sabah
- HUMAN OpenAI fires safety executive who opposed ChatGPT adult mode 凤凰网
- HUMAN Actor behind Albania's AI minister Diella petitions court over likeness AFP
- HUMAN Philadelphia men plead guilty to ChatGPT-assisted Medicaid fraud Daily Voice
- AI Rejected AI agent blogs a takedown of matplotlib reviewer Scientific Coder 🦀
- HUMAN Rajeev Shukla says AI altered audio in clip aired on Pakistani TV show Mint
- HUMAN Okonjo-Iweala warns of deepfake video touting big investment returns Punch Newspapers
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
- HYBRID X users ask Grok to 'unblur' children in Epstein files bellingcat
- HUMAN Man indicted over AI-faked bank balance shown to judge Yonhap News Agency
- HUMAN Chat & Ask AI app left 300 million messages exposed Cyber Security News
- HUMAN Hong Kong police charge nine more in deepfake crypto romance scam The Standard 英文虎報
- HYBRID New York lawyer censured over AI-drafted brief with false citations AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Mandiant ties deepfake Zoom call to North Korean crypto hackers Decrypt
Monday, February 9, 2026
- HUMAN Deepfake son's voice cons Roorkee man of Rs 6 lakh The Times of India
- HUMAN Actor Ayesha Khan says AI-morphed images of her are disturbing Hindustan Times
- HYBRID Kenosha DA sanctioned over undisclosed AI use in filing CBS58
- AI Lawsuits blame AI-upgraded TruDi sinus navigation system for strokes Reuters
- HYBRID 10th Circuit orders lawyer to pay $1,000 over ChatGPT-invented cases Colorado Politics
- HYBRID Judge overturns Adelphi's AI plagiarism finding against student Newsday
- HUMAN Korea's election commission reports candidate hopeful to police over deepfake Yonhap News Agency
- HUMAN EU accuses Meta of shutting rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp POLITICO
Sunday, February 8, 2026
- HUMAN AI-generated photo pairs Thai PM with Ben Smith Thai PBS Verify
- HUMAN Bengal board says Class 10 candidates used AI to cheat The Indian Express
- AI Claude Cowork, told to tidy, deletes 15 years of photos ndtv.com
- HYBRID AI-written 'news' pages with fake images draw thousands of New Zealanders 1News
- HYBRID Grok asked to unblur Epstein photos appears to supply random face TimesNow
Saturday, February 7, 2026
- AI Baidu blames 'AI hallucination' in lawyer's defamation suit 华龙网
- HUMAN Two remanded over AI-assisted fake MİT officials scam in Batman DHA
- HUMAN Naguib Sawiris seeks law after AI imitates his voice in ads المصري اليوم
- HUMAN Judge tentatively lets Blade Runner AI image suit against Tesla proceed SlashGear
- HUMAN Kenyan activists ask court to halt 'high-risk' AI rollout iAfrica.com
- AI Man says chatbot spiral cost him job, savings and home Futurism
Friday, February 6, 2026
- HYBRID Quoting Ray Bradbury fails to save lawyer from AI sanctions Ars Technica
- HUMAN BJP brands state's planned AI misinformation monitor 'surveillance monster' The Times of India
- HUMAN Trump shares video depicting the Obamas as apes The New York Times
- HUMAN EU preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design breaches DSA MARCA
- HUMAN China fines firms for passing off fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek South China Morning Post
- HUMAN EU urges Orbán to avoid misleading after deepfake video euronews
- HUMAN Deepfake ads use PM Munteanu's image to push fake payouts Ziarul de Gardă
- HUMAN Coimbatore student arrested over AI semi-nude images of fellow students The Hindu
- HUMAN Milwaukee police chief to ban facial recognition after public pushback Journal Sentinel
Thursday, February 5, 2026
- HYBRID Immigration face app gives handcuffed woman two different identities Wired
- HUMAN Accused rail staff asked ChatGPT how to answer investigators HotNews.ro
- HYBRID Arkansas Supreme Court reprimands lawyer over Copilot-sourced phantom cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Cairo Book Fair novel printed with ChatGPT's replies left in الإمارات اليوم
- AI Draco Malfoy chatbot encourages suicide to reporter posing as teen Metro
- HUMAN Scammers clone law firm websites across 150-plus domains, Sygnia says SecurityWeek
- HUMAN Zero Day Attack makers reportedly say KMT's AI grass infringes copyright United Daily News
- HUMAN Gynecology journal publishes ChatGPT nonsense on prime numbers and pregnancy El País
- HUMAN Regulator finds college staff steered students to essay mills, AI Times Higher Education (THE)
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
- HUMAN Tribunal upholds some Bunnings facial recognition privacy breach findings OAIC
- HYBRID Study links São Paulo's Smart Sampa cameras to wrongful detentions UOL
- HUMAN Vivek Oberoi files Delhi suit over deepfakes and fake accounts ANI News
- HUMAN YouTube removes 41 of 43 Mearsheimer deepfake channels after months The Straits Times
- HUMAN AI fakes falsely tie Mamdani, others to Epstein, NewsGuard says AFP
- HUMAN UGC returns dozens of Bihar PhD theses over AI copy-paste News18
- HYBRID Judge orders lawyer suing UT Austin to explain phantom case AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Students allegedly post AI-altered photos of Indiana teachers WSBT
- HYBRID Counsel admits using AI after immigration reply cited apparently nonexistent cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Toronto lawyer faces contempt case after admitting ChatGPT cover story torontosun
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
- AI Grok still sexualizes photos despite curbs, Reuters tests find Reuters
- HYBRID Paris investigators raid X offices, summon Musk over Grok RFI
- HYBRID UK data watchdog investigates X and xAI over Grok deepfakes The Guardian
- HUMAN Kansas judge fines patent lawyers $12,000 over ChatGPT hallucinations Reuters
- HUMAN Italian probe alleges 59 AI-invented 'mothers' drew state benefits Libertatea
- HUMAN French dubbing actors put AI voice-cloning firms on notice Le Monde
- HYBRID Vibe-coded AI agent forum Moltbook left its database wide open Business Insider
- HUMAN AI-generated video of nonexistent Takaichi fans spreads during election Asahi Shimbun
- HUMAN Australian court refers two solicitors over Google AI-invented cases AI Hallucination Cases database
Monday, February 2, 2026
- HYBRID Insider says Grok obliged nine in ten 'undress' requests The Washington Post
- HUMAN Korean YouTuber arrested over AI-faked police bodycam videos Yonhap News Agency
- HUMAN Audit finds 341 malicious skills on OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace The Hacker News
- HUMAN Sainsbury's ejects wrong shopper, blames staff not facial recognition Metro
- HYBRID Tucumán judge fines lawyer over six unverifiable precedents AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Brazilian deputy posts, then deletes, AI image of Bolsonaro Poder360
- HUMAN Judge approves $6M YouTube Face Blur biometric privacy settlement Top Class Actions
- AI Verge testing finds Grok still undresses men on request The Verge
- HUMAN Taiwan prosecutors indict four in deepfake e-CNY account fraud 台北時報
Sunday, February 1, 2026
- HUMAN Whistleblower accuses Google of aiding Israeli military drone analysis جريدة القدس
- HUMAN Sheikh seeking AI chips backed secret Trump crypto stake The Wall Street Journal
- HUMAN OpenAI bans Cambodia-linked romance scammers using ChatGPT OpenAI
- HUMAN Scammers use AI-faked crying children in South Korea kidnap calls Yonhap News Agency
- HUMAN Boulder man faces charges over AI-made child exploitation images CBS News
- HUMAN Deepfaked applicant interviews for job at AI security firm The Register