William Hamish Yeates, 19, appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with eight counts of creating or altering sexual material without consent, a federal offence introduced in 2024, over deepfake images of a teenage girl he allegedly created and shared on X. Prosecutors confirmed it is South Australia's first such case; he also faces 12 harassment counts.
A hacker who claimed to be chasing a bug bounty eventually got Anthropic's Claude past its guardrails and, turning to ChatGPT when stuck, stole 150 gigabytes of Mexican government data, including documents related to 195 million taxpayer records, according to Gambit Security. Anthropic says it banned the accounts; Mexico's tax authority and electoral institute say they found no breach.
A Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT as a diary to log a covert campaign against dissidents abroad, OpenAI says, including operators posing as US immigration officials and a faked dissident death. ChatGPT refused to plan a smear of Japan's incoming prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, though similar hashtags later appeared. OpenAI banned the user.
Thames Valley police used facial recognition to match Alvi Choudhury, 26, to CCTV of a £3,000 burglary in Milton Keynes, a city he had never visited; he was handcuffed in Southampton and held nearly 10 hours. Police deny racial profiling, citing officers' visual assessment, though they told him the arrest "may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology". Choudhury is claiming damages.
FBI agents searched the home and office of Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, in a probe a source says involves AllHere, the failed maker of the district's since-unplugged AI chatbot "Ed", whose founder was charged with fraud in 2024. Authorities gave no details; sources say the focus is Carvalho and financial issues. LAUSD says it is cooperating.
Prosecutors say Milwaukee police officer Josue Ayala, 33, used the department's Flock license plate camera system to look up the plate of someone he was dating 124 times and that person's ex 55 times, listing "investigation" as the reason. He faces one misdemeanor count of attempted misconduct in public office and is expected to resign.
The FBI used a search warrant to get X to hand over Grok prompts that Simon Tuck allegedly used to generate about 200 pornographic videos depicting a woman he knew, according to an FBI affidavit. The affidavit also accuses Tuck of swatting the couple's home and posing as her husband to make mass shooting and suicide threats.
A CNA analysis of nearly 300 AI-generated Chinese-language YouTube videos found at least 10 channels likely acting in concert to push fabricated claims that Prime Minister Lawrence Wong was losing power and Singapore faced economic doom, many featuring a deepfake of the late investor Charlie Munger. YouTube terminated two flagged channels; most videos remain online.
Ruling on a suit by yoga guru Ramdev, the Delhi High Court issued an interim order barring unauthorised use of his name, image, voice and other personality attributes, including AI deepfakes showing him endorsing products, cures or medicines, and gave platforms 72 hours to remove content he objected to. Parody, caricature and lampooning are exempt.
Johor's Royal Press Office warned that several fake TikTok accounts used AI to imitate the voice of Malaysia's king, Sultan Ibrahim, promising cash aid for Ramadan and Hari Raya. The office called the videos a scam and noted impersonation is illegal; separately, Johor's police chief said at least 12 fake accounts had used state executive councillors' names to tout aid.
A convict with a 19-year prison sentence used AI to merge a relative's photo with their own to dodge facial recognition and obtained a new ID with it, an investigation found. Police in Mecidiyeköy caught the convict after a name tattooed on the spouse's hand did not match the fake ID, and after a chase of about 1 kilometre.
Shanghai police say a man surnamed Yang used AI software to doctor other people's medical records and invoices into fake proof of food poisoning, then demanded compensation from restaurants, threatening complaints to regulators. Police say he succeeded twice and failed twice, netting 2,500 yuan, and confessed; he faces criminal measures on suspicion of extortion.
