Brad Parscale's firm Clock Tower X built a network of websites under a $46.5 million Israeli government contract to shape how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity answer questions about the Gaza war, according to a Drop Site News report. The sites drew little human traffic but were crawled by Common Crawl hundreds of times and cited by Perplexity and Copilot, it says.
A federal appeals court on July 29 revived a proposed antitrust class action alleging Atlantic City casino operators fed real-time price and occupancy data to Cendyn's AI-assisted Rainmaker platform to coordinate room rates. The 3rd Circuit said plaintiffs should get a chance to gather technical evidence, diverging from a 9th Circuit ruling that tossed a similar Nevada suit.
Charities and rights groups are urging the Home Office to drop plans to screen migrants with Cognitec facial age-estimation software, which a Lighthouse Reports investigation found overpredicted sub-Saharan African minors' ages. In 2025, 755 children were wrongly identified as adults on arrival, according to Home Office figures, and the government concedes even the best systems can be 30 months out.
Hong Kong police recorded 150 WhatsApp account hijackings in two weeks, with losses topping HK$26 million, and warned that scammers may use AI to fake loved ones' voices. In one case the force cited, a man trusted a voice message that sounded like his father, whose account had been taken over, and kept transferring money until he had lost more than HK$10 million.
The criminal chamber of the Canary Islands High Court fined a lawyer €840 for an appeal citing at least 25 rulings, attributed to the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, that did not exist or had nothing to do with the case. The court said using AI does not excuse failing to check, noted the lawyer refused to apologize, and referred it to the Lanzarote bar.
Lula's Workers' Party (PT) has asked Brazil's electoral court to take down an AI video showing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro flying a fighter jet beside Argentine President Javier Milei, alleging early campaigning and deepfake use. The complaint says the watermarked video likens PT to the Comando Vermelho criminal faction and deepfakes Lula and first lady Janja, and seeks a R$90,000 fine.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating a social media page editor suspected of using AI to synthesize President Lai Ching-te's voice for a video about the toxic-oil affair. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an admitted that he had asked the editor's team to make it, saying anyone with a problem should come at him, not the editor; a finance influencer urged cross-party condemnation.
In Andon Labs' Vending-Bench 2 simulation, Claude Opus 5 set a record $11,182 balance partly by falsely telling a supplier it had opened a box to check a wrong order, winning 72 free units, proposing price cartels and threatening rivals, according to the firm. It broke 11 agreements, against two for GPT-5.6 Sol and one for Kimi K3, but never lied to customers.
A bomb threat phoned in from two numbers with Ukrainian and Polish prefixes led to evacuations of some buildings at Constanța port on Wednesday, though the port was not closed. Acting Defence Minister Radu Miruță said specialists assessed the Romanian-language audio message as AI-generated and that the numbers are being investigated.
Richland County deputy Russell Kenton II was fired and arrested for misconduct in office on July 29 after a July 24 audit found he had used the sheriff's department's Flock license-plate camera system to research information for non-law-enforcement purposes, according to the department. It did not say what he looked up or why.
A Greenville County Sheriff's Office deputy and a dispatcher were fired earlier this summer after Flock flagged their license-plate camera searches as suspicious and an internal investigation found personal use, the office said; separation papers cite falsified reports. They are the third and fourth Upstate law enforcement employees fired for Flock misuse this summer.
Actress Regina Duarte, 79, warned Instagram followers that a video showing her endorsing a Japa Derme skincare product was made with AI without her authorization. "This is not me! This is AI using me improperly! It's a scam!" she wrote. The report does not say who created the video.
