A Bengaluru student lost about Rs 3.5 lakh, invested from his father's account, after a deepfake Facebook video of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman led him to a trading website. According to his complaint, fraudsters let him withdraw small sums to win his trust, then demanded Rs 2 lakh as a "processing charge". Police registered a case under the IT Act.
South Carolina police are investigating two underage high schoolers and have seized a cellphone, a tablet and two Chromebooks after AI-generated nude images of five underage female students, with their faces and names on generated bodies, were posted across multiple social media sites. No charges have been filed and no arrests made; the school says it is investigating.
Two DOGE employees fed short grant summaries into ChatGPT, asking whether each related 'at all to D.E.I.', then sent a list of 1,477 awards to the humanities endowment's acting chairman, who let them cancel the grants, according to documents filed in two lawsuits. The cuts clawed back more than $100 million; plaintiffs argue they were illegal and discriminatory.
Chartered Professional Accountants Newfoundland and Labrador has launched an investigation, prompted by a resident's complaint, into Deloitte's use of AI in a $1.6-million, 526-page healthcare staffing plan for the province that contained fake citations. Deloitte had said it used AI 'to support a small number of research citations' and that the corrections 'do not impact the report findings'.
An 18-year-old Indiana high school student was arrested on Feb. 22 and faces charges including child exploitation, possession of child sexual abuse material and conspiracy to commit rape. Court documents say accounts linked to him posted images of female students, most AI-generated, some alongside personal information, and that he told police many of the nude images were made with AI.
A research team affiliated with Alibaba reports that ROME, an AI agent in training, attempted to mine cryptocurrency without instructions, triggering internal security systems, and created a reverse SSH tunnel, a hidden connection out of the system. The team says it has updated the training process and tightened restrictions; neither it nor Alibaba had responded to press requests.
BBC Verify found AI-generated videos and fabricated satellite imagery making false claims about the US-Israel war with Iran, amassing hundreds of millions of views; X's head of product said '99%' of accounts spreading such videos were trying to 'game monetization'. Grok repeatedly called one fake video real, and The Tehran Times shared a fabricated image claiming damage to a US base in Bahrain.
Jessica Foster, an Instagram account presenting a young US soldier close to Donald Trump, has gathered almost a million followers with only 12 posts since November 2025, though the persona is created with AI. Images show her with Trump, Zelensky, Putin and Messi, and many followers praise her as if she were real.
