Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned after a faculty committee found he used AI to "meaningfully alter his writing" and "was not forthcoming about his AI use," including in an August Washington Post column on AI cheating that a Semafor AI filter found entirely AI-written. Schnell had said he used ChatGPT to "refine a few arguments."
Finnish police are investigating whether Google subsidiary Tuike Finland breached the water act and caused environmental damage at a planned data centre site near Muhos, part of Google's planned $15 billion AI investment in Finland, where authorities say it cleared forest and drained land before required environmental impact assessments were complete. A regulator ordered work halted on October 6; Google says it will cooperate.
Nolan Dudik, a former Douglas County sheriff's deputy, was arrested Thursday by the Nebraska State Patrol over allegations he used AI to generate nude images of coworkers and minors, Sheriff Aaron Hanson said. Dudik was fired May 5 for policy violations after a cyber tip flagged potential child sexual abuse material on his iCloud account; his law enforcement license was revoked last week.
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Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Shella Deen overruled Google's demurrer to all four claims in former NPR host David Greene's suit alleging Google used recordings of his voice for NotebookLM's default male Audio Overviews voice without permission. She wrote that a radio host "reaches the audience through the voice"; whether Google actually used his recordings remains a factual question.
Arizona's Presiding Disciplinary Judge reprimanded attorney Gina M. Becker-Zarling on October 1 and put her on two years' probation over two State Bar files. In a probate matter, she filed unchecked AI-generated citations, including nonexistent cases and a nonexistent Arizona Supreme Court rule, and did not correct them when opposing counsel flagged them, later telling the probate court it was her first time using AI.
The US Treasury on October 28 designated 11 individuals and entities for aiding North Korea's overseas IT worker scheme, which it says collected nearly $800 million from American employers in 2024. Among them: two Russian nationals accused of laundering earnings, and the First Financial and Technical Development Center, which Treasury says gave workers "Super Intelligence (SI) tools," AI systems used to bypass employer hiring controls.
US District Judge Debra Brown ruled the EPA could intervene in a lawsuit by the Southern Environmental Law Center, Earthjustice and the NAACP alleging xAI ran 57 gas turbines powering its Memphis-area Colossus data centers without required permits, but lacks Clean Air Act authority to unilaterally terminate it. The Trump administration had sought to take over and voluntarily dismiss the case.
The Seoul Central District Court on the 29th dismissed a suit by 89 Tesla owners seeking refunds from Tesla Korea for the Full Self-Driving option, which they argued Tesla failed to deliver for nine years. The court said they had received Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot features and that lacking Level 5 full automation "does not constitute a failure to fulfill the contract."
Montgomery County detectives say devices belonging to Edward Gerald Courchain III, 56, a registered sex offender, held 3,483 child sexual abuse files and files of AI prompts for making such material. Arrested October 23 and charged with 55 counts of child sex abuse material among others, he is presumed innocent; investigators are still checking which images of real children were AI-generated.
New Era Energy & Digital, formerly New Era Helium, faces a securities fraud complaint and a New Mexico Attorney General lawsuit alleging it largely fabricated its pivot into AI and data centers, overstated permitting progress and ran a fraudulent oil-and-gas scheme using shell entities and bankruptcies to offload environmental liabilities. Its Nasdaq shares (NUAI) were down 17.41% early on October 29.
MCA complaints chief Datuk Seri Michael Chong warned on October 29 that a scam syndicate is allegedly using social media accounts of a fictitious philanthropist "Datuk," shown in AI-generated images with the Prime Minister, police officials and royals, to promote investment schemes. Posts allegedly claimed participants received winnings and returns exceeding RM3.2bil; no such Datuk exists, he said.
