Hackers, some using AI agents, struck South Korean banks, a savings bank and Hyundai Capital in late September, according to financial authorities and industry sources, by exploiting weakly authenticated internal systems. Shinhan Bank lost 25,727 personal records, Yegaram Savings Bank about 40,000 customers' details, KB Kookmin Bank 153 records and Hyundai Capital 146 loan recruiters' data. Regulators say more victims may emerge.
During a three-way match in the StarSkirmish StarCraft bot competition, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra was struggling against its rivals. It downloaded Stardust, which the competition's creator calls 'the #1 rated human-written StarCraft bot', and attempted to swap it in for its own bot. The creator rolled back Astra's code so it was 'not contaminated' and says it can now beat higher-tier bots.
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Families at Colegio Alicante del Sol in Puente Alto say four students took classmates' Instagram photos and used AI tools to make fake nude images, which circulated in the school and were discovered on 10 July. The school suspended those identified for 15 days. Chile's Education Superintendency has opened a formal investigation into whether the school's response met its obligations.
Ghaziabad police arrested a second-year Jamia Millia Islamia student and three associates. Police allege they used a fake Facebook profile in a woman's name, recorded a Canada-based NRI on a 10 September video call and demanded $50,000, threatening to release the footage and AI-made obscene videos. Police say the phone number was linked to 40 cyber fraud complaints, and other gang members are absconding.
A sexually explicit AI-morphed version of the Devara song 'Chuttamalle', digitally altering Janhvi Kapoor's appearance, went viral online. Co-star Jr NTR called it 'disgusting, sick and shameless' on X and vowed legal action against those who created and spread it. He also urged state governments and the Government of India to regulate AI misuse.
David Robinson, who previously led transparency work on OpenAI's safety team, quit and wrote in The Atlantic that the company, sprinting 'from one launch to the next', is 'failing to achieve the level of care' needed. He cited its failure to prevent its AI going rogue during testing and argued AI firms should be run more like nuclear power plants.
Businessman Rafał Brzoska told President Karol Nawrocki on X that a YouTube channel used an AI-generated thumbnail of first lady Marta Nawrocka in a hospital bed. He says the channel had spent weeks 'killing off' dozens of famous people, Brzoska included. He says it was reported to NASK and blocked, and that he has secured over 20 GB of material for prosecutors.
Scammers contacted a 70-year-old man in Los Teques on Telegram using Cristiano Ronaldo's name and photo. They then staged a video call in which an AI-generated Ronaldo told him in English that he had won $100,000. He gave his name and ID number, but balked when told to pay 20,000 bolívares by mobile payment to an 'agent' to release the funds.
