After the US blacklisted Inspur in March 2023, its new US subsidiary Aivres exported at least $5.6 billion of advanced technology to Southeast Asia from April 2024 to February 2026, including over $3 billion of computers with Nvidia Blackwell chips, according to The Times and ImportGenius. The Times says it appears to use export-law loopholes; officials say an inquiry has begun.
More than ten coaches of tourists, plus many private cars, arrived in Jurilovca, Romania, for a Lipovan borscht festival not held this year. Mayor Eugen Ion blames tour agencies that advertised trips and ChatGPT, which he says told organisers the festival was on that weekend, then explained it had mistaken agencies' marketing pages for confirmation.
Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz is switching off all 84 of the office's Flock license-plate cameras, going beyond Governor Ron DeSantis's directive withdrawing authorization for them on state-maintained roads. DeSantis warned of AI surveillance, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier cited cases of officers using the systems to watch ex-partners; the sheriff says the cameras helped solve crimes.
Caleb Mills, 25, used stolen photos, voice-changing technology and AI to invent "Hailey Morello," a sheriff's deputy, according to Athens-Clarke County police, who say one man believed he was engaged to her, swapped vehicles with Mills and gave him money. Mills, who police say posed as Hailey's relative to report she was being harassed, is charged with identity fraud and impersonating a public officer.
A clickbait site ran an AI-made image of Greek actress Dora Chrysikou, bald, under a caption claiming she was undergoing a second course of treatment, with supposed statements from her family. Chrysikou, a cancer survivor who says she has passed five years and is well, told the programme Exelixeis Tora the image was traumatic and so badly made it was obvious.
A social-media ad used AI to fake the face and voice of a bitter-melon farmer from Pingtung's Jiuru Township, spliced with his old news interviews, to sell "green bitter melon chips" of unknown origin. The farmer, whose cooperative makes its own chips, says even he could not tell it apart, never recorded the lines, and plans to report it to police.
To avoid farm work, Eranna Honnuunchi of Kavali village, Koppal, allegedly used AI to add a tiger to a photo of a hill near the farm, showed his family, then posted it online, alarming villagers. Forest officials identified the image as AI-made, had him explain on camera on the same hill how he made it, and set 50 squats as punishment.
