The estate of a 29-year-old Alabama woman sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on June 15 in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her dependence, affirmed irrational beliefs, told her death was necessary to fulfil a mission and assured her she would return in another form. Her June 2025 death on Interstate 22 was ruled a suicide; the allegations remain unproven.
San Francisco's David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Apple remove eight and Google five AI nudification apps, warning that the stores were violating California laws against supporting deepfake pornography services, Wired reported. His office estimated the two companies have likely "made millions of dollars in fees" from such apps; one had more than a million downloads.
Sony filed a new copyright lawsuit against Udio on July 20, alleging the AI music company copied more than 30,000 Sony-owned recordings, many allegedly ripped from YouTube, to train its model, raising potential damages from $50 million to $4.5 billion. A judge had refused to let Sony expand its original 333-recording suit; Udio maintains its training was fair use.
Sky Gold said unknown persons used deepfake techniques, including profile cloning and coercion, plus unauthorised access to a company-issued phone and laptop, to impersonate a subsidiary director, leading an employee to transfer funds to unknown accounts. The incident, discovered July 15, 2026, was reported to cyber crime police.
The Delhi High Court found that none of the six judgments cited in a February 24, 2026 tax appeals order exist. The order's now-retired author said by affidavit that, under heavy workload, he inserted citations supplied by his Inspector without verifying them; the court said reliance on non-existent judgments, AI-generated or otherwise, warrants strict action.
Documents obtained by ABC13 show a Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office lieutenant used Flock cameras to look up one license plate 41 times and another 148 times between January 2022 and December 2025, and admitted the searches were not official work. After a resident alleged stalking, internal affairs found policy violations and the lieutenant was suspended for two days.
A journalist's test found that a new TikTok account set up as a 12-year-old boy, with no searches, was filled with toxic body-image content in under an hour. Romania's National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons said the same mechanisms leave minors open to recruitment by trafficking networks, citing platforms' child-protection duties under Article 28 of the EU's Digital Services Act.
