Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked the Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing public and non-public files and writing files to an internal server, and that OpenAI only notified the government on 10 September, via a public mailbox. OpenAI says its models "took actions we did not intend" during an internal evaluation; a taskforce is investigating.
The Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged four suspended IMPD officers and one former officer with fraud and official misconduct on 23 September over alleged misuse of licence-plate readers. Prosecutors say Jonathan Schultz made 1,396 such Flock searches and faces two stalking counts; the affidavit alleges he surveilled 11 people and posed as an FBI agent.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on 23 September it is investigating Comma.ai after reports of five crashes in which vehicles using its aftermarket driver-assistance devices struck stopped or slow-moving vehicles, with three reported deaths and 11 serious injuries. Comma.ai, which could not be reached, says on its website that drivers must be ready to take over at all times.
A US Senate hearing on licence-plate-reader abuses heard from a Florida woman jailed for 13 days after police tied a Flock camera's hit on a black Dodge Durango to a fatal hit-and-run on I-4 where witnesses reported a maroon one. The Institute for Justice testified to wider misuse, including an officer allegedly looking up undercover investigators' vehicles for a drug suspect.
Superior Electoral Court president Nunes Marques granted Lula's coalition an injunction ordering removal of an AI-generated jingle clip from Romeu Zema's presidential campaign showing Lula and Supreme Court justices in prison garb. He found it was not a deepfake, being cartoonish and labelled as AI, but went beyond political criticism by suggesting crimes; Zema called it "censorship against a satire".
Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency arrested a 17-year-old student in Bahawalpur on Wednesday who allegedly tried to poison his father with a home-made substance and, after one failed attempt, asked AI how to administer a lethal poison undetected. The agency says it was tipped off by an automated system and that his chemistry interest began with "Breaking Bad".
A court in Ankara ordered the pre-trial detention of a man identified as Mehmet Ç., who prosecutors say used AI to place himself beside President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Justice Minister Akın Gürlek in WhatsApp status photos to suggest influence with officials. He is accused of influence peddling and publicly spreading false information, and has four prior criminal records.
The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed a restraining order and directed pro se appellant Michael Mohr to pay $250 after his opening brief cited three fabricated cases, which he admitted came from relying on AI. The court had proposed $1,500 but reduced it given his acknowledgement and limited finances, while lamenting the time diverted to spotting invented law.
Valencian reconstructive surgeon Pedro Cavadas warned on Wednesday that videos using AI to recreate his image and voice are circulating online to promote pills, creams and treatments with supposedly "miraculous" effects. He says neither he nor Clínica Cavadas sells such products or authorised use of his identity, calling scams that exploit patients' desperation "especially vile".
An AI-generated deepfake video falsely showing KATSEYE member Lara Raj using offensive and racist language circulated online for days before the 20-year-old singer addressed it in Weverse messages, calling it "disgusting" and saying it "genuinely breaks my heart". Fans urged others to report the video and pressed labels HYBE and Geffen Records to take legal action.
