NHTSA opened an investigation into 16 crashes of concern involving Avride's autonomous vehicles, many in Dallas, where it has offered passenger services since December, citing lane changes into other vehicles and failures to avoid vehicles or objects. Avride said a trained safety operator was aboard in all cases and that many events were precipitated by other road users.
The Delhi High Court issued notice on Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's suit over allegedly AI-generated deepfake videos showing him praising Pakistan's diplomatic strategy, and said it will pass an interim order protecting his personality rights. Meta told the court the Instagram links had been made inaccessible that morning. Tharoor seeks Rs. 2,00,05,000 in damages.
An ABC News investigation identified dozens of online retailers using AI-generated images and videos to pose as struggling craftsmen and small shops, including a "retiring" flat-cap maker whose "handmade" hats shipped from mainland China. A supposed New York lamp boutique listed an address between Chanel and Versace retailers, where ABC found no trace of it.
Lucknow police arrested four men from Chhattisgarh accused of selling fake IPL 2026 tickets outside Ekana Stadium. Police say the group used ChatGPT to learn ticket size, design and paper quality, then forged tickets in CorelDraw from photos found online, after an earlier attempt in Delhi failed. A fan who paid Rs 1,000 for two tickets found them fake at the gate.
A Gloucester County man was charged with possessing child sexual abuse material and creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, authorities said. Investigators say they found more than 75 child sexual abuse images on his phone, plus photos of a minor altered with AI into nude images.
Ahmedabad's Cyber Crime Branch arrested three more people from Assam and Uttar Pradesh, bringing arrests to seven in an alleged racket that, police say, turned social media photos into AI "blinking" deepfake videos to bypass Aadhaar verification, change linked mobile numbers and take loans of Rs 25,000 to Rs 50,000 in victims' names. One accused is absconding.
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Paraná's Court of Justice found that an appeal by Athenas Administradora de Bens Próprios cited three non-existent STJ decisions, with "strong signs" of irresponsible AI use, and imposed a bad-faith fine of 3% of the updated case value (assigned at R$122,522.83), while still granting the appeal. It referred lawyer Débora Santos de Oliveira to the OAB/PR.
Police in Datong, Shanxi, have placed a livestream seller surnamed Xing in administrative detention. Police say Xing used an AI tool, without authorization, to generate a digital-human likeness of Kuomintang chair Cheng Liwen and sales scripts for livestream selling, hoping to ride the buzz around Cheng's mainland visit. Police deemed it impersonation to swindle under the Public Security Administration Punishments Law.
