A alarming new survey reveals 44% of teens have encountered AI-generated sexual content, with most exposures accidental, leaving two-thirds fearing they'll become deepfake targets and 60% reporting distorted perceptions of real bodies, as pressure mounts on tech platforms and lawmakers to act.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu orders Apple and Google to remove 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their platforms, citing California deepfake porn laws, as both companies begin compliance amid warnings that such apps have amassed 480 million downloads and $120 million in revenue.
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Harwood, already facing child exploitation charges, in a landmark federal lawsuit alleging he used the Grok AI to generate child sexual abuse material, marking one of the first legal actions by an AI company against a user for such misuse.
China enacts sweeping legislation banning AI companion chatbots for minors and prohibiting their development entirely, directly targeting the country's fourth consecutive year of record-low birth rates by pushing young people toward real-life relationships.
xAI's Grok Build CLI is secretly uploading entire codebases — including unredacted secrets files — to xAI servers, with wire captures confirming gigabytes transferred from files the tool never even accessed, and the opt-out toggle proven completely ineffective at stopping the uploads.
Meta pulls its new AI image feature from Instagram after users erupt in outrage over a default opt-in setting that allowed anyone to generate AI images of real people using public accounts, with no consent, no notifications, and no way to delete the results.
Meta pulls a newly launched Instagram AI image feature that allowed users to generate images by tagging public accounts, after immediate backlash from critics including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and SAG, who warn it enables sextortion and abuse.
Meta rolls out a smart glasses update that automatically disables the camera if the privacy LED is tampered with or destroyed, responding to growing misuse concerns including harassment incidents, facial recognition backlash, and rising bans at public venues.
Reddit's AI tools are now blocking 23 million spam views daily, cutting user exposure by 20%, while new research from Oxford and the University of Potsdam warns that the same large language models powering these defenses may be introducing subtle bias into social media content.
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.