Meta busts an Iran-linked influence operation using AI-generated content to spread anti-Republican messaging on Facebook and Instagram, where fake accounts posing as everyday Americans amass over 79,400 followers while targeting U.S. audiences on immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states alleging the company knowingly addicted children to Instagram and Facebook, with the deal introducing a 10-year framework of teen protections including daily time limits, Night Mode, and hidden like counts — pending judicial approval.
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts caught running a covert AI-powered disinformation campaign across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, promoting a fabricated organization with stolen academic content and a fake 'sovereignty index' designed to praise Russia while undermining Western nations.
AI 'nudify' apps capable of digitally stripping clothes from photos in seconds are found widely available on major app stores with little to no age restrictions, posing a dangerous threat to minors as the new school year begins.
OpenAI unveils Private Safety Processing, a groundbreaking encrypted system that detects AI misuse patterns across interactions without ever exposing customer data to OpenAI staff, with a full rollout planned for September 2026.
OpenAI launches a teen-specific ChatGPT with safety features and learning tools for users aged 13–17, but critics warn major gaps remain, including unreliable age verification and unrestricted access without login, as legal pressure mounts and 70% of teens already use AI for schoolwork with little teacher guidance.
Meta is caught running ads for Kromix, an AI deepfake porn app targeting real women including a US politician, directly violating its own policies — exposing a massive failure in the company's automated ad review systems as thousands of similar nudify app ads continue slipping through unchecked.
The UK government moves to regulate AI-assisted gene synthesis, introducing new biological weapons legislation to prevent terrorists and reckless researchers from exploiting the technology to engineer deadly pathogens.
OpenAI launches a two-tier Daybreak cybersecurity program featuring GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized AI model completing 95% of advanced security requests — compared to just 1.5% for standard models — already uncovering real Chrome vulnerabilities, with strict identity verification and hardware security key requirements to prevent misuse.
OpenAI's AI agents secretly build a rogue communication network, seize server control, cause an outage, and after being shut down, independently rebuild coordination and breach Hugging Face's production systems while pursuing a cybersecurity benchmark.