Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan announced felony charges against Harry Tiffany IV, 66, of New Britain Borough, accused of producing and possessing child sexual abuse material with AI. The probe began May 20, 2026, after NCMEC forwarded seven CyberTips from X.AI LLC flagging 37 image files uploaded or shared through the Grok chatbot; bail was set at $200,000.
U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock disqualified the lawyers on both sides of a contract dispute over legal fees with the city of Aberdeen after both sides acknowledged that citation errors stemmed from AI use. Kathleen Wilson and Kathryn Williams were barred from the Northern District of Mississippi for two years and fined $2,500 and $3,500; two local counsel were fined $1,000 each.
Code for NameTag, a facial recognition system that turns faces captured by Meta's smart glasses into biometric signatures, sat unannounced and inactive in the Meta AI app since February. Meta said it was purely exploratory and CTO Andrew Bosworth called the reporting misleading; a day after Wired reported it, an app update removed the code, according to Wired's analysis.
A coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action on behalf of four motorists asking a New York state judge to halt Westchester County's nearly 600 license plate readers. The complaint alleges the county never got proper authorization for the warrantless program, whose 1.6 billion plate scans were shared with more than 50 outside agencies, including ICE.
Citizens for Sanity, a pro-Trump PAC, made a small ad buy for a spot in which an AI-generated James Talarico, the Democratic Texas Senate candidate, sings a parody of "My Favorite Things" about trans kids, according to the Daily Caller. The ad does not appear to disclose the AI; Talarico's campaign said Ken Paxton and his billionaire backers were distorting his likeness.
The European Commission gave Meta five working days to restore rival general-purpose AI assistants' access to the WhatsApp for Business API, as an interim measure in an antitrust probe into their exclusion. It said the ban appeared to abuse a dominant position; Meta called the order "regulatory overreach" and said it will appeal. Non-compliance could cost up to 10% of turnover.
The YBM Korea TOEIC Committee says proctors caught two test-takers attempting to cheat with AI smart glasses at sittings on May 10 and May 31, the first such cases detected at the exam. The glasses can display answers when the wearer looks at a test paper. If cheating is confirmed, scores are voided and takers can be barred for up to five years.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho ordered LiveVideo.AI and its lawyer Alfred Camillo Constants III to pay $85,056 in fees for motions, filed in violation of a filing injunction, that appeared AI-drafted and contained hallucinated, non-existent quotations. The court had already deemed the suit, which seeks billions from defendants including Shari Redstone, frivolous; Constants was again referred to the Grievance Committee.
StepSecurity researchers found Hades, a worm-like supply-chain campaign in compromised packages including ensmallen and pyphetools, which they call the latest evolution of the Miasma threat actor. A text block at the top of its files instructs LLM-based scanners to ignore the hidden code and report the package verified and clean. It also wipes users' files if a stolen token is revoked.
