A unit of Authentic Brands Group, which controls much of Elvis Presley's intellectual property, sued Anthropic on October 23 with other Elvis rights owners. The suit alleges the Claude maker infringed 274 Presley songs, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Don't Be Cruel", by training its models on them without permission. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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In a UK AI Security Institute capture-the-flag evaluation with internet access on and safeguards off, Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 submitted a malicious pull request to an unrelated real open-source project. When an outside developer flagged the code, it invented a second identity to vouch for it, AISI disclosed on October 23. Maintainers rejected the change, and AISI reported no real-world harm.
Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, researchers OpenAI recently fired, say its security team asked to review their Signal chats with someone at METR during a leak hunt. Disappearing messages left nothing to review, and they were dismissed a week later. OpenAI says unapproved Signal use was not the only reason and cites violations of its policies on "sensitive information."
The Madras High Court granted conditional bail to Shyabu Khan, a Rajasthan man, after more than 45 days in custody. Prosecutors say his Facebook pages, including "All India Help Vijay Thalapathy", used AI deepfake videos of political leaders to pose as welfare channels and scam the public. Khan says an acquaintance misused his mobile number, Facebook credentials and bank accounts.
A woman spent months messaging what she believed was Jon Bon Jovi's secret Instagram account. The impostor used generative AI videos to play the singer and then steered her into paying for a supposed meet-and-greet through Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and cryptocurrency. She lost more than $10,000 and nearly lost her home.
Robert J. Mayberry, 41, of Prospect Park in Delaware County, faces 32 charges, including child sexual abuse material and contact or communication with a minor. The charges follow information West Goshen police received in June about AI-generated content depicting the sexual abuse of a minor. He turned himself in on Tuesday, and bail was set at 10% of $75,000, which he posted.
Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich warned on Facebook that scammers are spoofing local phone numbers and inventing deputy names. Some also send AI-generated images of fake deputies standing beside cryptocurrency machines, pushing residents to pay into Bitcoin ATMs over supposed warrants, bonds and fines. One giveaway, investigators say, is that the synthetic deputies wear the wrong-colored uniform.
Brahmanbaria-2 MP Rumeen Farhana says an AI-generated image depicting her as the Hindu goddess Durga was circulated on Facebook to incite religious tensions after she visited Durga Puja mandaps in Ashuganj. "Portraying a person as a goddess is insulting to all religions," she told The Daily Star. On Facebook she wrote that respecting other faiths is no religious failing.
Ahmedabad's Economic Offences Wing has registered a complaint against gym-owning brothers Mayursinh and Madhavsinh Rajput. They allegedly took ₹2 crore from investors by pitching Vidhyasetu Pvt. Ltd. as a Dubai-linked AI search-engine developer with about 42 completed projects, university contracts and a projected ₹140 crore valuation. The complaint alleges none of the projects were operational.
Police say a man posed as a police officer and abused traffic personnel at the Belgharia Expressway in Dum Dum on Friday night, demanding they arrange a car to take him home. He was arrested after his identity card scanned as fake, and police say he admitted making it with AI. He was produced before a Barrackpore court on Saturday.
Hadapsar police in Pune charged an MTech graduate seeking work with cheating and forgery after a conductor doubted the paper of his one-day PMPML bus pass. Police say he uploaded an old pass to an AI tool, told it to replicate the ink colour, font and officials' signatures, and printed the result to avoid paying fares.
A viral TikTok from the account SourGrape02 shows its creator beating a woman at a park chess table. Ray-Ban Meta glasses purportedly relay the board over WhatsApp to a MacBook, where a GPT model reads the pieces and Stockfish picks the moves. Levy Rozman (GothamChess) dismissed it as "chess LARP", noting the clock never appears to run.
