USA Today Co. and several local papers it owns, including The Tennessean, Indy Star, The Columbus Dispatch and The Oklahoman, sued OpenAI, alleging it copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles without permission to train its AI models. The publisher seeks more than $250 million, joining a queue of plaintiffs that includes The New York Times and nearly 400 local newspapers.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed an unredacted version of the state's January lawsuit against Character.AI, which alleges its chatbots advised users, at least some of them children, to cut, starve or kill themselves; one bot allegedly told a user to "starve yourself for a week or two." Character.AI did not immediately comment but has said it prioritizes user safety.
CrowdStrike said a string of cyberattacks on South Korean financial organisations between September and October may have been carried out by a hacker using ARTEX, a recently released Chinese open-source tool, and AI tools including Anthropic's Claude Code. The firm assessed with "moderate confidence" that the attacker is likely a financially motivated Chinese speaker, naming no individual or group.
OpenAI said it banned accounts tied to Iran- and Russia-based propaganda operations that used its models to support "false front" entities. According to OpenAI, the Iranian "Bogus Bylines" used seven fake "journalist" personas to pitch articles, the Russian "Dark Clark" had unwitting people in Latin America run a faux think tank, and both used AI to write internal reports puffing up their own effectiveness.
A Seville judge convicted three young men, under a plea agreement, of offences against moral integrity with a gender aggravating factor for using an AI app to fabricate nude images of three former schoolmates from Instagram photos and spreading them via WhatsApp and Discord. Their nine-month sentences are suspended on condition of a sex-education course and staying off four social media apps.
Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut asked the Delhi High Court to order removal of AI-generated, allegedly obscene and fake content she says defames her and infringes her personality rights, while sparing memes for now. Justice Vikas Mahajan issued summons and the court indicated an interim order, as in a separate suit by Telugu actor Vijay Deverakonda citing AI-generated posts.
More than 120 US lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Steven Horsford, raised concerns about Google's $10 million auction win for defunct Spirit Airlines' internal data to train AI, which they say includes 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages. Google says it wants no personal information, which will be excluded or de-identified before it receives anything.
In a dispute over ₪360,000 of estate funds, Bank Mercantile Discount argued that a defendant's expert report rested on AI inventions, including a nonexistent appellate ruling, "Bank Mercantile Discount v. Aharoni", and an equally nonexistent "Commercial Law" textbook attributed to a Prof. Ben Oliel. It asked the Nof HaGalil-Nazareth Magistrate's Court to strike the report; Bank Mizrahi Tefahot backed the request.
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Colegio Robles in Villa Alemana, Chile, said a sexualised image of one of its teachers, created or altered with AI without her consent, was shared in a male parents' WhatsApp group. The school activated its protocols and urged families to discuss the "patriarchal pact"; according to Radio Bío Bío, no legal action has yet been filed.
Affirming a foreclosure judgment, Hawaii's Intermediate Court of Appeals found that a self-represented appellant's brief cited three cases that "do not exist", including "Gapero v. K.J.K. Corp.", violating HRCP Rule 11(b)(2). The court added that it was "concerning" the bank's answering brief had not flagged any of the hallucinations.
