The New York Times and, in a separate complaint, the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software. They allege it scraped their journalism, let browser users bypass paywalls and sold access to its index to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. Perplexity's communications chief said the Times is overpaying its attorneys.
A WIRED investigation found a network of more than 400 connected apps and domains, posing as tools such as a pet portrait generator, that can secretly load an interface for making explicit deepfakes from uploaded photos. They appear to be run by Chinese developers and Hong Kong-registered KeLing Technology Limited. Apple removed 19 apps, and Meta says it acted against 11,600 ad accounts.
Cybersecurity experts say North Korea's TraderTraitor unit, which the FBI blames for the recent US$6.3 billion Binance hack, uses AI to help seek out high-value crypto businesses to compromise. A TRM Labs investigator says the group's novel techniques suggest ample use of AI. Binance has said the breach began with an engineer's compromised laptop.
The Turkish Competition Authority has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google. It says the company's AI-generated summaries and overviews are highly likely to drastically reduce referral traffic and advertising revenue for local publishers. Pending a final ruling, the regulator has banned Google from mandatorily integrating local news websites' content into those AI overviews and summaries.
FOI requests obtained by Medact show that 29 hospital trusts NHS England lists as "realising benefits" from Palantir's £330m federated data platform say it is not live or they use none of its applications. A senior health official called the gap "very misleading". The statistics watchdog says it is taking the matter forward, and NHS England insists nearly 140 trusts report benefits.
Stephen Kamnik, 40, a former Pennsylvania State Police corporal, was sentenced to five to 10 years in state prison for using AI to make pornographic images of two dozen women, including coworkers. Prosecutors say he used non-consensual recordings and photos from state databases, and investigators found child sexual abuse material. He pleaded guilty in April and was ruled a sexually violent predator.
A man sitting the exam for delegado, or police chief, in the Maranhão Civil Police was arrested on Sunday in São Luís after an invigilator caught him using an artificial intelligence tool to answer the questions. He was booked for fraud in public-interest exams at the college where the test was held, and remains at the disposal of the courts.
Prosecutors in Hangzhou say a man surnamed Sun, who suspected his girlfriend of cheating, used AI to look up how to make GHB. He then manufactured 56.62 grams of a solution containing it, planning to put her to sleep and check her phone. He admitted the crime, and a court sentenced him to four months' short-term detention and a 1,000 yuan fine.
Police in Chhattisgarh's Durg district arrested Parmanand Yadav, 24. He is accused of running a fake matrimonial call centre that used AI-generated photos of nonexistent women on Facebook and Instagram to lure prospective grooms, taking payments via QR codes before blocking them. Police raided the centre on October 29 and seized cash and equipment worth ₹2.83 lakh.
The Madras High Court granted conditional bail to Rajilal and Shiv Chandra. The two Uttar Pradesh men are accused of creating and circulating AI-generated videos showing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay speaking Hindi and claiming he would become Prime Minister. Prosecutors say they did it for social media likes; their counsel said the videos had been removed.
