The Huangpu District People's Court in Guangzhou convicted two defendants of copyright infringement for screen-recording more than 1,700 AI-generated short dramas, made with a game company's AI tool, and selling them cheaply on second-hand platforms. Each got eight months, suspended for one year and two months, plus fines, in what is billed as China's first criminal case over AI short dramas.
Planning documents for two proposed Google AI datacentres in Thurrock and North Weald, Essex, and Greystoke's Elsham Tech Park in north Lincolnshire appear to compare one year of emissions with the UK's five-year carbon budget, understating their share fivefold, according to nonprofit Foxglove. Greystoke said it expects to submit revised figures; Google did not respond to a request for comment.
A woman in Antalya says she lost about 700,000 lira after clicking a link in an online news item touting gains from an AI-supported investment system. She says scammers showed her small profits, then persuaded her to share her screen, took remote control of her phone, drew loans and cash advances on her accounts and tried to get her relatives to invest.
Judge Nina Wang of the federal court in Colorado imposed a $5,000 sanction on defense lawyer Kachouroff in Coomer v. Lindell. A brief he filed for Frankspeech twice called a district court ruling a Tenth Circuit decision and misstated its holding. Kachouroff, sanctioned $3,000 earlier over an AI-assisted brief, said he used no AI beyond Westlaw. The judge doubted it was only human error.
