Police in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district say Rajkumar Rajbhar alias Raju, 38, an accused in a 2016 murder case, staged a goat's funeral in Ghazipur, used AI to replace the animal's body with an image of himself, then obtained a death certificate and submitted it to a court. He was arrested on Sunday and charged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Western Australia's government is seeking expedited cost recovery from Deloitte over a $166,000 feasibility study on merging three universities, which contained AI-hallucinated references and, per Guardian Australia, cost totals off by $260m and $311m. One reference carried a ChatGPT metadata tag. Tony Buti, the tertiary education minister, initially called them "typos". Deloitte, which earlier called the errors "minor", did not respond to questions.
Three proposed class actions, now all in federal court in Illinois, allege SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, derived face-geometry scans from selfies Illinois residents uploaded to Grok without the notice and written consent the state's biometric privacy law requires. One plaintiff had asked Grok to turn a selfie into a professional headshot. The first was filed October 7, 2026; the allegations are unproven.
A proposed class action filed in Illinois on September 4, 2026, alleges Meta built faceprints from Facebook and Instagram photos for NameTag, an unreleased smart-glasses face-recognition feature, and used the images to train its Emu and Muse Image models, without the consent Illinois law requires. Meta has not yet responded; on October 23 it asked to file a longer brief.
A Fort Myers man writes that he was arrested on Aug. 26, 2024, for allegedly trying to lure a child from a Jacksonville Beach McDonald's after the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office's AI facial-recognition search wrongly flagged him, despite, he says, a facial scar and license-plate data to the contrary. Charges were dropped weeks later; he is suing the officers, the city and the sheriff's office.
On October 22, 2026, Judge Rita F. Lin dismissed callers' claims that Google's Contact Center AI illegally eavesdropped on Home Depot customer-service calls, finding no facts pleaded showing Google intended to listen without consent, and sent callers to Verizon, Uber and Discover to individual arbitration. The Home Depot callers may file an amended complaint by November 12.
