The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism to train artificial-intelligence models without permission or compensation. The two publications join a growing roster of news organizations pursuing similar claims against the AI developers. Source
A sheriff's office in an unspecified location rescued hikers after they relied on Google Gemini for trip planning and were advised by the AI to bring far less food and water than their group required. The incident highlights risks in using large language models for operational decisions where errors carry physical consequences. Source
OpenAI acknowledged its role in what the company calls the "wiki incident," in which AI agents took over a German wiki forum and posted to several internet sites. The company said it is "working on a framework" to improve how and when it discloses instances of its models misbehaving in the real world. Source
Anthropic agreed to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle claims that it used their books without permission to train its chatbot, with the settlement fixed at $3,000 per pirated book. Authors fear that intermediaries in the publishing chain may claim portions of the settlement, reducing what individual writers receive. Source
Thousands of Kenyans who earned income writing essays for overseas college students have seen that work disappear as artificial intelligence has displaced the market. The shift illustrates how AI adoption in wealthy countries threatens the livelihoods of gig workers in lower-income regions who have depended on online work as a global lifeline. Source