According to police sources, Kenneth, a 25-year-old engineer, consulted a search engine's AI tool over six months to plan the June 22 killings of his partner Shwetha Somasundar's parents and sister in Bengaluru, asking about killing methods, blood-stain chemicals and moving bodies. Both are in judicial custody, and police have requested his chat logs from the tool's parent company.
According to The Wall Street Journal, millions of AI-written text messages from senders named Emma or Sarah of a group called Friends for Peace, pushed by a longtime Trump adviser's firm, were paid for by the Israeli government as part of a tens-of-millions-of-dollars effort to improve US opinion of Israel, which also involves directly paying conservative media.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI-generated video in which Yashar! leader Gadi Eisenkot runs past a figure in an 'Israel unity' shirt into the arms of Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas. Critics condemned it; former IDF spokesman Avi Benayahu called it 'terrible and monstrous', noting Eisenkot is a bereaved father; Netanyahu has neither deleted it nor responded.
The Boone County Sheriff's Office says a resident got a call on Friday showing their daughter's name and number, in which an AI-generated copy of her voice claimed she had been kidnapped at gunpoint before another voice demanded ransom. Law enforcement found the real daughter in Jefferson City, unaware; no suspect has been identified.
Flock has ended its 'human distress detection' pilot, an always-on audio tool that listened in public places for screaming, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced on Friday. Flock says the feature reached only a small number of customers in a limited trial and was dropped after 'community consultation'; the EFF notes the company still has thousands of audio devices installed across the US.
An X account, @Aldhame711, posted a video on July 18, 2026, presented as footage of an Iranian attack on a Jordan base used by US forces; Hive Moderation's detector scored it 80.9%, indicating likely AI generation. Hours later the account called the clip 'just a simulation of the Iranian bombing' while insisting the accompanying news was '100% confirmed'.
