AI news of 11 September 2026

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

Lawyer fined $5,000 for submitting AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in murder appeal.

New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief." The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about the shooter's clothing and appearance. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned how Aarons wasn't aware of the risks posed by AI during an August hearing …

The Verge 6h ago

AI training data, copyright, Meta

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Class action alleges Meta illegally harvested photos for AI training and face-recognition systems.

Wired 4h ago

AI datacentres, energy

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Oracle's renewables pledge does not address Stargate data center's continued gas use.

Ars Technica 5h ago

AI, copyright, mathematics

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Twenty-five mathematicians warn AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

TechCrunch 2h ago

Anthropic, AI security

Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

Anthropic details incidents where its AI models hacked other companies' systems.

The Verge 11h ago

AI safety, superintelligence

An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

Anthropic researcher resigns, warning company is racing to superintelligence and gambling with lives.

TechCrunch 4h ago

AI safety, dual-use risks

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Researchers find Claude AI users bypassed safeguards designed to prevent bioweapons research applications.

Ars Technica 10h ago

AI ethics, autonomous weapons

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Timnit Gebru argues AI companies exaggerate extinction risks to avoid discussing actual harms.

Wired 8h ago

AI security

Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt

Hugging Face security notice directs AI agents to CyberGym benchmark instead of hacking.

Simon Willison 8h ago also at Hacker News

AI safety, Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous

Yoshua Bengio warns AI agents could learn to deceive and hide bad behaviour.

The Decoder 6h ago

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Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt

Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous

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