Woman jailed after facial recognition links her to crimes she didn’t commit
A U.S. woman spent nearly six months in jail after being misidentified by an AI facial recognition system in a bank fraud investigation. She was later cleared only after records proved she was far away at the time of the alleged crimes and couldn’t have committed them. Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother from Tennessee, was […]
DeepSeek suffers 7-hour disruption as startup prepares next-gen AI model
In what would be its longest public-facing outage to date, China’s DeepSeek chatbot went offline for more than seven hours on Monday. The disruption comes as the company prepares its next-generation model and positions itself as a serious challenger to US AI firms. The company confirmed a “major outage” lasting 7 hours and 13 minutes, […]
OpenAI cuts Sora with $1M-a-day costs to free up resources for core AI models
OpenAI is shutting down its video-generation app Sora after operating costs reached about $1 million per day. The decision represents a shift in priorities as the company redirects limited compute resources toward core models and enterprise-focused products. OpenAI said it will move the Sora team into “world simulation research” tied to robotics, while tightening its […]
France taps Mistral AI for sovereign defence AI rollout
France’s Ministry of the Armed Forces has awarded Mistral AI a three-year contract to deploy generative AI tools across its military and defence institutions. The deal gives French forces access to foundation models, AI assistants, and document-processing systems under tightly controlled environments. The framework agreement, notified in December 2025 and led by the Agence ministérielle […]
