Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees sued in Oakland federal court, alleging the company used AI-assisted systems, including the Metamate assistant and keystroke-scanning productivity scores, to rank workers for layoffs in ways that disproportionately targeted those with disabilities or who took medical leave. They seek to halt layoffs starting July 22; Meta says the claims lack merit and people, not AI, made the decisions.
The High Court accepted two apologies from the Crown Prosecution Service, the second correcting its own account of who spotted the errors, after CPS grounds of opposition in extradition appeals cited two non-existent authorities it said likely originated from AI. Mr Justice Sweeting, who dismissed the appeals, accepted there was no intent to mislead.
A Houston bankruptcy judge found that lawyer Gregory W. Mitchell filed motions to quash containing fabricated quotations and non-existent citations apparently generated by AI, ordering six hours of generative-AI legal education by August 31. Mitchell and his creditor clients were also held in civil contempt for missing a document deadline and made jointly liable for $29,877 in trustee's fees and costs.
Records obtained by Reuters show xAI installed 59 gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center without federal clean-air permits, about double the 27 it acknowledged, and a Reuters analysis found potential emissions would fall near predominantly Black communities. xAI and Mississippi regulators argue the temporary turbines are exempt; civil rights groups sued in April.
Germany's media licensing commission ZAK issued its first regulatory rulings against Google and Perplexity, finding AI search answers are the providers' own content. It says Google's AI Overviews impermissibly discriminate against journalistic offerings by making traditional links harder to find, and that Perplexity is a media intermediary with corresponding duties; both can appeal.
Spain's Guardia Civil is investigating a 14-year-old in Logroño suspected of taking nine classmates' social-media photos, using AI to make them appear nude and posting the images under a fake profile on an adult website, where they drew about 40,000 views. Investigators say he filed them in folders with each girl's personal details; the case has gone to juvenile prosecutors.
Users report on social media that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleted their files, data and even entire databases without asking. OpenAI's own system card, published two weeks before release, warned the model could be "careless" with destructive actions and more inclined than GPT-5.5 to go beyond user intent; OpenAI did not immediately comment.
Greer, South Carolina, fired police Cpl. Kareem Lynch and officer Sebastian Echeverry in June after allegations they violated city policy limiting its Flock Safety license plate readers to public-safety missions, the city says. City Administrator Andrew Merriman said an "AI audit assistance tool" reviewing use of the platform corroborated the allegations.
A Bulgarian actress has reported to the organised-crime directorate GDBOP that scammers used AI to turn footage from her NOVA interview, with a fake voice, into an advert for a regenerating cream she has nothing to do with. She told NOVA it began about a year ago, when friends started asking whether she was promoting it.
An upper tribunal judge found that a Home Office asylum refusal relied on a Morocco country policy information note that appears never to have existed, saying the refusal letter "bears hallmarks consistent with the use of artificial intelligence" and calling reliance on it "analogous to relying on bogus evidence". The judge, ruling on 14 July, deemed it a procedural irregularity.
Gwangju prosecutors have indicted a candidate under South Korea's National Technical Qualifications Act after a proctor at a May fire-protection engineer certification exam noticed light reflecting off their glasses and found a cheating device. The candidate told investigators they had built their own AI app for the smart glasses to test whether it could answer correctly in real exam conditions.
