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Fake biomedical citations surged 12-fold in three years as a May 2026 audit found that one in 277 papers carried non-existent references early in 2026.

A reported case of romantic ChatGPT obsession has sharpened fears over AI companions as OpenAI adds crisis safeguards that may miss slower emotional dependence risks.

A reported shift toward AI digital twins in executive staff and client work has raised new governance fights over consent, authority and shutdown rights.

AI tensions overshadowed Cannes as Fjord won the Palme d'Or, with filmmakers now split over consent, likeness rights and how far AI should shape cinema.

Microsoft has put Jenny Lay-Flurrie at the center of Trusted Technology Group oversight, testing whether responsible AI policy can delay risky launches.

Wozniak's 'actual intelligence' line drew cheers at Grand Valley State while Eric Schmidt and other 2026 commencement speakers were booed for praising AI.

OpenAI and Sam Altman defeated Elon Musk after California jurors found his remaining claims arrived too late, with the judge dismissing the case that same day.

Arizona students have booed Eric Schmidt during a commencement speech as his defense of AI collided with graduate fears over automation, jobs, and careers.

A likely OpenAI acquisition of Weights.GG has centered on voice tech, while Replay remains online and the startup's broader platform has already shut down.

ArXiv will impose a one-year submission ban when a preprint shows incontrovertible evidence that authors did not review LLM-generated text or references.

Microsoft Israel chief Alon Haimovich is expected to leave after an ethics probe has intensified scrutiny of Azure and AI defense ties inside Microsoft.

Anthropic and OpenAI joined a Faith-AI roundtable in New York as organizers plan global sessions and critics question whether ethics talk shapes AI governance.

Greg Brockman has valued his OpenAI stake at 30 billion dollars in testimony, sharpening the trial fight over whether OpenAI can stay under nonprofit control.

The Nature Portfolio journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications has retracted a ChatGPT education meta-analysis over discrepancies, forcing schools to reassess the study's positive AI learning claims.

xAI has launched Custom Voices on Grok 4.3, cloning a user's voice from a minute of speech behind a two-stage passphrase and speaker-embedding consent gate.

Google's potential Pentagon AI deal has raised the prospect of Gemini entering classified work, deepening defense ties as employee opposition returns.

A federal judge has dismissed Elon Musk's fraud claims against OpenAI days before trial, narrowing the case to unjust enrichment and charitable-trust counts.

Google has entered talks with the Pentagon to deploy Gemini inside classified DoD systems after Anthropic's Claude phase-out, a CNBC report has revealed.

A report has found Apple and Google steered users to nudify apps through App Store and Google Play search, ads, and autocomplete despite deepfake bans.

A stalking victim has sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions over seven months while the company ignored three safety warnings.

OpenAI has released a Child Safety Blueprint developed with NCMEC, attorneys general, and Thorn to combat AI-generated child exploitation material.

Three YouTube creators have filed a class action DMCA lawsuit against Apple for allegedly scraping videos to train AI models, setting a major legal precedent.

Google has added one-touch crisis hotline access to Gemini and pledged $30 million for mental health support amid a wrongful death lawsuit over the chatbot.

Google workers have found that military AI activism has shifted since Project Maven, with employee letters replacing the company-wide revolt of 2018.

Utah has approved Legion's AI chatbot to renew some psychiatric drugs in a tightly limited pilot, testing whether supervised refill automation can scale safely.

GitHub Copilot has injected promotional messages into over 1.5 million pull requests, prompting GitHub to disable the feature amid developer backlash.

OpenAI has indefinitely shelved its erotic chatbot after all eight mental-health advisers voted unanimously against the feature over age-verification failures.

The Welsh Government has used Microsoft Copilot to process interview data in a review that led to Industry Wales's closure, sparking an AI transparency dispute.

Senate Democrats have introduced bills to ban autonomous AI weapons and mass domestic surveillance, seeking to write Anthropic's safety red lines into law.

Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz has completed a theoretical physics paper in two weeks using Anthropic's Claude AI, replacing a full year of grad work.