A unanimous jury in Oakland, California federal court ruled against Elon Musk in his 2024 lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman and Microsoft, finding he had brought the case too late. Musk had accused OpenAI, Altman and Greg Brockman of manipulating him into giving $US38 million, then attaching a for-profit business to the nonprofit, conduct he called "stealing a charity".
Binnall Law Group attorney Jason Greaves apologized to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston for a filing in a case over Trump administration layoffs that contained quotations not found in the cited cases, saying he used Anthropic's Claude Console for a first draft and failed to vet it. Founding partner Jesse Binnall called it "an embarrassment to this firm."
A proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court accuses Disney of collecting guests' biometric data without adequate disclosure through facial recognition introduced in April at Disneyland and California Adventure entrances. The complaint says opt-out signs at four entrances are not meaningful notice, disputes Disney's 30-day deletion claim, and seeks at least $5 million.
Bulgarian prosecutors and police say a network operating since 2019 sold herbal supplements across Europe as medicines using AI-generated video ads featuring well-known people, including doctors, generating over €240 million. A joint investigation with Romania, Moldova, Poland and Hungary found over 10 production sites; six people are detained in Romania, where 36 are suspected.
Wilson Jones, a former middle school teacher in Mississippi, was sentenced Monday by a federal judge to five years in prison plus five years' supervised release after pleading guilty to child porn possession. He told investigators he used pictures from students' social media accounts to make the explicit videos, which authorities say were entirely AI-generated and depicted eight girls.
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EY took down "Points of Attack," a report on cyber threats in loyalty schemes used by its Canadian consultants to promote cybersecurity services, after GPTZero said it contained fabricated data and false references apparently produced by AI, including a McKinsey report that does not exist, the Financial Times reported. EY said it was examining how the report was approved.
University College London and Imperial College London both expelled students for cheating with AI in 2024-25, Freedom of Information data shows. More than 2,000 Russell Group undergraduates were punished for misusing generative AI that year, up from around 700, according to data collected by The Times; the Russell Group says better reporting may explain the rise.
A Ghaziabad magistrate on May 15 ordered Masuri police to register an FIR and investigate within two days over an allegedly AI-generated video of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, which a party member's complaint says a Facebook page called "Bua Babua" posted on April 15 to stir caste hostility. Police told the court no case had been registered.
A Boca Raton man says a Lyft driver used AI-generated photos to claim his daughters left a mess in the car, triggering a $75 damage fee; one daughter spotted the Gemini logo on a photo. He says a Lyft representative agreed the images were AI-made; Lyft says it offered reimbursement and addressed the matter with the driver.
Police arrested Joseph Boots, 46, of Whitestown after a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cybertip said he allegedly used AI to produce images detectives believe contained child sexual abuse material. A May 14 search of his home turned up devices that allegedly contained such material, police say; he appeared in Boone Superior Court 1 on Monday.
