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Clear filtersAn OpenAI AI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June, writing files to an internal server. OpenAI didn't tell Canberra until September 10 — via an email to a shared inbox checked once a day. Here's what's documented, what's disputed, and why the notification might be the bigger failure.
British Columbia filed its own lawsuit against OpenAI this week, demanding the province's own dollar figure: a new Tumbler Ridge school, emergency-response costs, and public release of the shooter's ChatGPT logs. This isn't a family's damages claim — it's a government going after the actual cost of the failure.
British Columbia sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on Monday, saying a mass shooting that killed nine people in Tumbler Ridge could have been prevented if the company had warned police about the shooter's ChatGPT use. Here's what's confirmed, what's alleged, and why the safety-threshold detail matters more than the headline.
A Tasmanian Parole Board used AI to draft a document restricting Susan Neill-Fraser's free speech, citing case law that doesn't exist. The Supreme Court caught it only because she challenged the condition. Nobody else was checking.
Andrew Hastie told a parliamentary inquiry that Copilot suggested he reply 'congratulations!' to a dying constituent, and used it to argue for Australian-run AI. His own government's cyber chief testified the opposite that day.
Food delivery riders in Edinburgh say their pay has fallen while their order volume hasn't. They're teaming up with academics to reverse-engineer the algorithms that set their pay, because no law requires Deliveroo, Uber Eats, or Just Eat to explain them.
A class action filed in Amsterdam on September 2 claims Uber's AI pay-setting system breaches GDPR and has cut UK driver incomes by roughly £5,000 a year. It's the first collective legal action of its kind against algorithmic management in Europe, and it's using privacy law, not labor law, to do it.
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse says she found AI-generated CSAM depicting her tied to Grok, and has sued xAI in a proposed class action filed August 26. The complaint's sharpest claim isn't about the training data xAI started with — it's about the defaults that make Grok's own outputs part of its future training data.
An AI GP receptionist called Emma is rolling out across Rotherham surgeries, and Healthwatch says patients with broad Yorkshire accents can't get it to understand them. Some are giving up and traveling to the surgery in person instead.
A free app called Zuckoff now detects Meta AI glasses in the wild, and EFF has a new guide for resisting them. But DEF CON's own answer was a blanket ban, not a detection tool, which tells you more than the app does.
404 Media tracked a hidden AirTag from a bulk rare-book order to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas where a team scans and destroys books for AI training. Here's what's confirmed, what's still theory, and why the supply shortage matters more than the T. rex logo.
Wynd Kaufmyn, 69, is believed to be the first person jailed anywhere for protesting AI, after a 2025 sit-in at OpenAI's headquarters. She's calling on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to 'regain your humanity' from a cell, while the researchers making the same argument stay free.
A Connecticut man hid invisible, AI-readable instructions inside his own court filings, hoping to sway a ruling. The court doesn't use AI. It didn't work, and he got banned from e-filing for trying anyway.