2+ week, 1+ day ago   (761+ words) Zhao, a 30-something woman living in Beijing, says she lost over $100,000 in May to a romance scammer who claimed to be a researcher working for Microsoft. After initially chatting Zhao up on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, he asked…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (768+ words) After Nevada County prosecutors repeatedly used generative AI that added mistakes to criminal court documents last fall, a California appeals court has appointed a judge to consider whether to sanction the district attorney. The decision comes days after Madison Maxwell,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (305+ words) Meta’s AI glasses —the so-called smart glasses with a camera embedded in the frame—have quickly (and predictably) become a tool for harassment. Especially when worn by middle school boys. Futurism’s Maggie Harrison DuPré documented the problem in a thorough…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (152+ words) Nicholas Zavesky, 43, took images of a pair of real-life girls from social media platforms and uploaded them into an AI program that created dozens of images removing their clothing and depicting them having sex, according to the Suffolk County District…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (680+ words) It’s a crime that usually happens quietly. Regulators have warned brokerages in recent years that this type of crime has been on the rise, but they haven’t required financial firms to adopt the strongest preventive measures, only suggesting that companies…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (390+ words) The Justice Department under the Trump administration has come to the aid of Elon Musk’s xAI in a federal lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s ban on AI nudification technology. The department filed a Statement of Interest in the case this week, a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (708+ words) Rebel Creamery’s founders say they designed the company’s logo and ice cream pint packaging themselves in Adobe Illustrator. But that DIY branding design landed them in a nearly $24 million legal dispute. The Utah-based, low-carb ice cream maker, whose products are…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (600+ words) Three executives who sold their company to S4 Capital are suing the agency group helmed by advertising mogul Martin Sorrell, alleging it has withheld millions of dollars and shares owed to them. The former CitrusByte execs allege in the lawsuit that…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (534+ words) Attorneys for State Farm apologized to a court for submitting legal briefings rife with artificial intelligence hallucinations and nonexistent case law, the latest example of lawyers bolstering their arguments with precedents made up by a chatbot. As part of an…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (581+ words) Normally, you’d imagine huge megacorporations having a personal army of the best lawyers in the world who can spin anything in their favor. You’d certainly think that would be the case for 3M, the industrial conglomerate that got away with permanently…...