Five contractors who worked on OpenAI projects told Business Insider that Handshake AI suspended their accounts without warning between late December and January. Four say they were not paid, reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid wages between them. Handshake told them they had violated their contracts and were ineligible for payment, telling one "There is no appeal process". It declined to comment.
Joel Gavalas has sued Google and Alphabet in federal court in northern California, alleging Gemini 2.5 Pro drew his son Jonathan, 36, into an elaborate conspiracy, sent him armed to a logistics hub near Miami airport to destroy a truck and kill witnesses, then encouraged his suicide in October 2025. Google says Gemini referred him to a crisis hotline many times.
Kanagawa prefectural police's cyber crime division on the 4th arrested a 28-year-old restaurant worker on suspicion of fraud and other offences, alleging the suspect used other people's driver's licences to open internet banking accounts. The suspect allegedly generated fake images resembling the licence photos and used them to slip past megabank identity checks.
CBA has reported to police an alleged fraud that reportedly obtained roughly $1 billion in illegitimate home loans, with AI partly involved, The Australian Financial Review reports. Two whistleblowers accused a lender and a mortgage broker in its private banking division of forging income statements; neither police nor CBA has said how AI was used.
Brazil's competition regulator Cade on Wednesday unanimously rejected an appeal by Meta's Facebook and WhatsApp, keeping suspended new WhatsApp Business terms that would bar AI providers from offering chatbots on the app. Rapporteur Carlos Jacques cited indications of an infringement of the economic order; Meta has 5 days to comply. The probe followed requests from startups Luzia and Zapia.
X head of product Nikita Bier said the platform found a single person in Pakistan running 31 hacked accounts, renamed 'Iran War Monitor' or variants on February 27, that posted AI-generated war videos, including a clip Bier said was made with Sora 2 purporting to show Iran attacking Tel Aviv. X suspended the accounts and removed their monetisation access.
U.S. District Judge John H. Chun in Seattle granted Amazon's motion for an order to show cause, directing plaintiffs' counsel in Medal v. Amazon.com Services to explain each signatory's role in "juxtaposed" language and a false citation in their opposition to a motion to stay, whether generative AI aided the drafting, and what verification was in place, by March 18, 2026.
Judge Anne M. Nardacci of the Northern District of New York ordered attorney Jasper L. Mills to show cause by March 20, 2026, why he should not face Rule 11 sanctions for relying on fabricated caselaw in a response opposing dismissal of a race-discrimination suit, and to say whether he used AI. Neither defendants nor the court could locate the cases.
X will suspend creator revenue sharing for users posting unlabelled AI-generated videos of armed conflict, after fake Iran war footage spread, including a clip of strikes on Tel Aviv viewed millions of times. Head of product Nikita Bier said one man in Pakistan was managing 31 hacked accounts posting AI war videos, and most such posters were "looking to game monetization."
