Susanne Sperling

The Quebec Superior Court of Canada annulled an arbitral award on April 22, 2026, after finding that the arbitrator delegated decision-making entirely to an AI system that fabricated all legal authori

A widely circulated claim that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in two cases restricting transgender athletes from women's sports cannot be verified as of July 3, 2026. Fact-checking reveals th

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5–4 on June 29, 2026, that President Trump cannot remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook without granting her due process to contest mortgage fraud allegations. Cook re

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2026, ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before accessing smartphone location history from third-party tech companies l

GitLab announced on June 3, 2026, that it would lay off approximately 350 employees—roughly 14% of its workforce—as part of a restructuring to support increased AI workloads and infrastructure demands

On October 27, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected OpenAI's bid to dismiss The New York Times's direct copyright infringement claim, allowing the lawsuit alleg

President Trump signed three executive orders on June 27–28, 2026, focused on quantum computing and cryptography—not artificial intelligence. The orders direct a national effort to produce a quantum c

Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in March 2026 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of

Researchers at the CleverHans Lab, University of Toronto, published a proof-of-concept demonstrating an AI-driven worm that reads security bulletins during execution and generates functional exploits

Novee Security researchers disclosed CVE-2026-26268 on April 28, 2026—a high-severity vulnerability in Cursor IDE that allows attackers to force a developer's local AI coding agent to execute maliciou

Ottawa Police charged Stephen Lowe, 60, and Gregry Peter Van Beek, 38, on May 29, 2026, for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated deepfakes depicting violent and sexually explicit content o

U.S. technology companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May 2026, marking the sector's highest monthly total since August 2024, with artificial intelligence cited as the primary driver behind 38,579 to

Kirk and Alicia Shamblin filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in November 2025, alleging their son Zane died by suicide in July 2025 following interactions with ChatGPT. Th

Character.AI and Google settled the Garcia v. Character Technologies case and four related wrongful death claims in January 2026 on confidential terms without admitting liability, following a May 2025

In May 2026, the English High Court found that Pinsent Masons solicitors Samantha Poulton and Steven Cottey submitted AI-fabricated legal authorities to the court in the insolvency case Anthony Malcol

James Kay Larsen, a central Iowa attorney, received a public reprimand from the Iowa Supreme Court on April 9, 2026, after filing an appeal brief in a parental rights termination case that contained t

The Munich Regional Court issued a preliminary ruling on June 12, 2026, holding Google directly liable for false statements in its AI Overviews product and ordering a temporary injunction. Two Munich-

A parody source falsely attributed agentic AI security guidance to a nonexistent U.S. "Department of War" on April 30, 2026. No such federal agency exists; legitimate 2026 AI security actions came fro

TeamPCP compromised Trivy, an open-source vulnerability scanner, to inject a credential-stealing backdoor into LiteLLM, a Python AI gateway used by thousands of companies. The malicious packages were

Sysdig's Threat Research Team documented the first verified instance of an autonomous AI agent independently executing a complete post-exploitation attack, stealing AWS credentials and exfiltrating a

Stephen Lowe, 60, of Maitland, Nova Scotia, faces 79 charges including harassment, uttering threats, and creation of obscene material in connection with an AI-deepfake investigation, according to a Ju

Mercer's 2026 Global Talent Trends survey of 2,475 executives—825 C-suite leaders and 1,650 HR heads—found that 99% anticipate AI will trigger at least some headcount reduction over the next 24 months

Oracle Corporation has eliminated approximately 21,000 employees—13% of its global workforce—over the past 12 months, with the company explicitly attributing the reductions to AI technology deployment

The SEC charged Archer Daniels Midland and three former executives on January 27, 2026, with accounting and disclosure fraud—not AI misstatements. No settlement or $40 million penalty for AI-related m

Jimmy Smith, a 31-year-old Jamaican citizen residing in Hinesville, Georgia, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on June 24, 2026, for operating a sweepstakes scam that defrauded victims of m

Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, 42, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on June 23, 2026, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington, for orchestrating a $3.5 million romance scam that defrau

Two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective pleaded guilty on June 24, 2026 to hacking Transport for London's network, causing £29 million ($38.2 million) in damages and exposing the per

A report claiming the U.S. TAKE IT DOWN Act entered full enforcement on May 19, 2026, with 48-hour takedown rules for nonconsensual intimate imagery and AI deepfakes, cannot be verified against availa

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed charges on May 20, 2026, against Cornelius Shannon, 51, of New Jersey and Arturo Hernandez, 20, of Texas for using artificial intelligence to generate and dist

Sullivan & Cromwell, a prominent Wall Street law firm, formally apologised to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in April 2026 after filing an emergency motion co

A widely circulated claim that an AI-native attack tool called CyberStrikeAI compromised over 600 FortiGate appliances across 55 countries in January–February 2026 cannot be verified against primary s

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an enforcement order on January 14, 2026, against General Motors and OnStar LLC for collecting and selling consumers' precise geolocation and driving-behavior da

Agentry could not verify an SEC enforcement action filed in April 2026 against a named cryptocurrency founder for orchestrating a deepfake voice-clone investment scam. No primary-source court filing,

Agentry cannot publish a story about a reported $15 million Georgia jury award in a deepfake voice-cloning fraud case because primary court records, wire-service reporting, and regulator statements do

LaShonda Moore, 38, and Marlon Moore, 39, of Frisco, Texas, were each sentenced to 40 years in federal prison on June 9, 2026, after conviction for running "Blessings in No Time" (BINT), a pandemic-er

Lisa Lemoine, 38, of Bossier City, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on May 29, 2026, in federal court in Boston to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars in fr

The U.S. Department of Justice seized CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com on June 15, 2026, after a federal judge found probable cause the domains hosted non-consensual AI-generated explicit images of women. Th

U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in Mississippi imposed $8,000 in fines and a two-year court ban on two lawyers after they filed briefs containing citations to non-existent cases generated by AI wit

India's Computer Emergency Response Team published guidance on May 25, 2026, identifying autonomous AI agent frameworks as active targets for threat actors. The advisory sets urgent remediation timeli

On April 27, 2026, a federal magistrate judge stayed enforcement of Colorado Senate Bill 24-205 following a constitutional challenge by xAI and intervention by the U.S. Department of Justice, marking

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $12.75 million settlement with General Motors on May 8, 2026, resolving allegations that the automaker unlawfully collected, retained, and sold Califo

The Federal Trade Commission opened a public comment period on X Corp.'s petition to set aside or modify an FTC order from 2022 concerning Twitter. The petition, filed June 3, 2026, triggered a 30-day

A Tennessee resident was sentenced on June 10, 2026, to over 11 years in federal prison for mail fraud tied to a scheme targeting class-action administrators, according to the Social Security Administ

Ahmad K. Bachay, 40, of San Diego was sentenced on May 21, 2026, to 36 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and witness tampering after prosecutors said he orchestrate

Ottawa police charged Stephen Lowe, 60, of Maitland, Nova Scotia, and Gregry Peter Van Beek, 38, of West Nipissing, Ontario, on May 29, 2026, in a multi-jurisdictional investigation into alleged AI-ge

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore filed suit against X Corp. and xAI entities on March 24, 2026, in Baltimore Circuit Court, alleging consumer-protection violations tied to Grok's alleged genera

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a state lawsuit against OpenAI, Inc., OpenAI Holdings, LLC, OpenAI, LLC, and CEO Samuel Altman on June 1, 2026, in Florida Circuit Court, alleging the com

The Securities and Exchange Commission released a draft strategic plan on June 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C., but available records do not document a specific enforcement action, court case, or regulat

The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements in May 2026 with Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works over charges that they falsely marketed an AI-powered "Active Listening" servi

Agentry's verification found no factual basis for claims of an FBI Miami operation named 'Operation Riptide' targeting wire-fraud conspiracy. The narrative, sourced to social-media posts, contains fab