A proposed class action filed June 22 in federal court in Sacramento alleges that Kalibrate's AI pricing software let some of California's largest fuel retailers, including Marathon, 7-Eleven and Walmart, coordinate pump prices using competitors' data, violating the Cartwright Act. Citing a study, the complaint puts the mean overcharge at roughly 6 cents per gallon, and up to 30 cents.
Complainants contesting a logging permit filed an AI-drafted document citing clear-cutting studies by Estonian scientists who, the Tallinn Administrative Court found, do not exist. Despite their protest that AI use is not banned, it fined one €150 and nine others €50 each; with the Supreme Court declining an appeal, the fines are final, the first known in Estonia.
A Damanhour criminal court gave a student a one-year suspended sentence for blackmailing a female relative with AI-faked images touching her honour, saying only her reconciliation with him spared him the harshest penalty. In its written reasons the court also urged Egyptian lawmakers to pass an urgent law regulating artificial intelligence.
DuckDuckGo's Search Assist told users that Donald Trump and JD Vance had died of rabies, citing an apparent pink-slime site that appears to crib from r/poisonai, a roughly 45,000-member subreddit devoted to feeding AI nonsense. DuckDuckGo said it "got ducked" and fixed it; Brave, whose AI repeated the Vance claim, said verifying answers is up to users.
France's Treasury directorate unplugged an Alibaba Qwen model on June 23, after senior officials warned of "biased" answers on China-related subjects during a trial by just under 100 of its 1,300 staff that began in early June. Bercy gave no examples, said the model ran offline with no data leaving, and installed a Mistral AI model the next day.
