An Amnesty International briefing finds that standalone generative AI systems built on unlawful web scraping depend on 'mass invasions of privacy by design' and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law. It says their data and training practices abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination and threaten freedom of expression and thought, and it calls for the systems to be prohibited.
CNN has sued Perplexity in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content; the filing says CNN sought a content deal with Perplexity last year but the two did not agree on terms. Perplexity's communications chief replied: "You can't copyright facts."
According to a Reuters investigation, Tesla's claim that Full Self-Driving is up to 10 times safer than human drivers compared its own airbag-deployment crashes with federal data on all tow-away crashes, inflating the figure threefold. Ten of 11 traffic-safety researchers called the statistics misleading marketing. Seven of nine former data labelers said they wouldn't trust FSD to drive them.
Ukrainian police say a network of Odesa call centres, set up by two local residents, posed as Kazakh bank, telecom and law-enforcement staff, using deepfakes and AI-generated images to impersonate officials and talk victims into installing malware. Losses reached almost 2.5 million hryvnias; 13 people have received notices of suspicion and nine were detained.
A San Francisco Airbnb host has sued The Bot Company, the robotics startup launched by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, alleging it booked his home without saying it would test a robotics prototype there. The complaint says more than 30 people came through during the two-week stay and seeks $12,383.50 for damage including entry into a locked closet.
Sysdig's Threat Research Team says an intrusion it observed on May 10, 2026 was driven entirely by an LLM agent, which exploited a vulnerable marimo notebook, harvested AWS credentials, found an SSH key in AWS Secrets Manager and exfiltrated a PostgreSQL database, the whole chain running end to end in less than an hour.
A Brooklyn-based New York state appeals court has issued a $250 sanction against a man who submitted an AI-drafted brief containing a "hallucination" — a citation to a nonexistent case — holding that such a filing warrants a sanction even when the filer has no attorney.
Surabaya police arrested a 25-year-old man from Kutai, East Kalimantan, identified as AY, who they say admitted using an AI app called Dola to fake QRIS payment proofs for five cash withdrawals at a shop between February 11 and May 22, 2026, taking Rp 3.39 million. The owner, having grown suspicious, was waiting for him and called police.
