New York federal judge Katherine Polk Failla entered default judgment against attorney Steven Feldman's client after he repeatedly filed papers with fake citations, 14 errors out of 60 across three filings. Feldman testified that he wrote the florid prose quoting Fahrenheit 451 himself and blamed relying on AI tools to check citations. The judge found that "extremely difficult to believe."
The state government's planned Rs 67.2-crore AI-based 'Social Media Analytics Solution' to monitor hate, misinformation and obscenity online has drawn a "snooping" charge from the opposition BJP, whose Amit Malviya called it a "surveillance monster". Ministers HK Patil and Priyank Kharge defended it. No tender has yet been awarded.
President Trump shared a 62-second video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, with a brief clip near the end, apparently AI-generated, portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. It was unclear whether Trump knew the clip was included; Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office called it "disgusting behavior by the President."
The European Commission has accused TikTok, in preliminary findings, of breaching the Digital Services Act by failing to protect users from harm caused by addictive design, citing infinite scroll, autoplay, constant notifications and a highly personalised recommendation system. If confirmed, TikTok could face fines of up to 6% of its global annual turnover; the Commission says the procedure is ongoing.
China's State Administration for Market Regulation fined Shanghai Shangyun Internet Technology 62,692.70 yuan (US$9,034) for a WeChat service posing as the official Chinese version of ChatGPT, and Hangzhou Boheng Culture Media 30,000 yuan for a look-alike "DeepSeek local deployment" website that, the regulator says, tricked users into paying. The cases were among five made public on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Facebook page posted an AI-made video in which Ursula von der Leyen asks Péter Magyar to send money to Ukraine and a Magyar figure replies that this requires winning an election; 1.5 million people have seen it. The European Commission urged respect and no misleading information, though Orbán labelled it as AI and national authorities primarily handle such cases.
Sponsored Facebook and Instagram ads use AI-faked videos of Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu promising 14,000 lei a month from a "state programme" and urging people to enter their data on websites, according to StopFals.md. Munteanu called them a scam; the ad libraries of some sponsoring accounts, run from countries such as Vietnam or Ukraine, list hundreds of misleading ads.
Coimbatore District (Rural) Police arrested a 20-year-old male student of a private college, alleging he used AI tools to create semi-nude images of 24 female students from the same college and posted them on Instagram through a fake account in a woman's name. Police say he took the photos from social media and WhatsApp groups and admitted it when confronted.
Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman will issue a directive banning all members from using facial recognition, which the department had used through other agencies without a policy governing it, a department email says. The move came the day after a Feb. 5 Fire and Police Commission meeting with about three hours of public testimony against the technology.
