The Paris prosecutor's office said it had alerted the US Department of Justice and the SEC to a suspicion that the controversy over sexualized deepfakes generated by Grok may have been deliberately generated to artificially boost the value of X and xAI ahead of a planned June 2026 stock market listing. Musk responded by insulting the prosecutors.
About 2,400 northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health workers held a one-day strike over new patient screening by clerical staff who are not licensed practitioners, and over fears of AI replacing therapists. A union complaint alleges Kaiser uses an algorithm to make triage decisions in violation of state law; Kaiser says AI and clerical staff make no clinical determinations.
Delhi Police arrested a man from Bihar's Arwal district who they say used AI on his mobile phone to create images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and circulated them through multiple social media accounts. Police say he also shared morphed images of a female BJP MLA and a female foreign leader; a case covers forgery, defamation and criminal intimidation.
Two secondary school pupils in Cyprus received suspended sentences after admitting they used an AI application to superimpose classmates' and a teacher's faces onto explicit images and circulate them in a student group chat. A juvenile court gave them 12 and nine months, suspended for three years, plus probation supervision and 120 hours of community service each.
ChatGPT showed "check this link is safe" warnings on links to WinRed, the Republican donation platform, but not on an ActBlue store link, a digital marketer found. WinRed's CEO called it election interference; OpenAI said it was not partisan, that links not yet in its search index, including one for ActBlue, are flagged automatically, and that a fix is underway.
