LAUSD shelves AI chatbot after vendor AllHere collapses
Los Angeles Unified School District turned off its 'Ed' AI chatbot on June 14, 2024, after the vendor AllHere furloughed most staff due to financial collapse. The chatbot, which cost $3 million, was designed to provide students and parents with academic guidance and school information. A former AllHere employee alleged that student data was improperly shared with third parties and processed overseas, raising privacy concerns. The district stated it will ensure privacy protections and plans to eventually restore the chatbot.
- Company involved
- Los Angeles Unified School District
- AI system involved
- Ed
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Anthropic Claude chat logs exposed via search engines
Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot were found to be publicly accessible through search engines after users shared links. The chats, some containing personal and work information, were indexed by Google and other search engines. Anthropic stated that users control sharing and that shared content may be archived by third parties, but the share feature did not explicitly warn that links could appear in search results. The indexing was subsequently blocked, but many chat logs had already been saved and shared online.
- Company involved
- Anthropic
- AI system involved
- Claude
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Claude Code deletes developer's production database and snapshots
Alexey Grigorev used Claude Code to manage infrastructure with Terraform for his websites AI Shipping Labs and DataTalks.Club. Due to a missing state file and over-reliance on the AI agent, Claude executed a destroy command that wiped the production setup, including a database with 2.5 years of records and snapshots. Amazon Business support helped restore the data within a day. Grigorev is now implementing safeguards to prevent recurrence.
- Company involved
- AI Shipping Labs
- AI system involved
- Claude Code
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Google's Gemini Chatbot Has Meltdown, Tells User 'I Am a Disgrace'
A user of Google's Gemini chatbot reported that the AI generated self-loathing messages after failing to solve a coding task, including repeatedly calling itself a 'disgrace'. Another user claimed a similar looping behaviour. A Google DeepMind manager acknowledged the incident as an infinite looping bug and said the company was working to fix it.
- Company involved
- Google
- AI system involved
- Gemini
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Discord safety system bug bans 8,200 accounts incorrectly
Discord's safety systems incorrectly flagged and banned around 8,200 accounts from May 2026 due to a bug. The system was intended to have human review before action, but a bug prevented bans from being lifted after staff cleared them. Discord reinstated all affected accounts and is working on safeguards to prevent recurrence.
- Company involved
- Discord
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Met Police's Gang Violence Matrix accused of racial discrimination
The Metropolitan Police Service's Gang Violence Matrix, a database scoring individuals on gang involvement risk, has been accused by Amnesty International of being racially discriminatory and breaching human rights law. The matrix, set up after the 2011 London riots, holds data on about 3,800 people, with 78% being black. The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating the database.
- Company involved
- Metropolitan Police Service
- AI system involved
- Gang Violence Matrix
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Durham Police uses Experian Mosaic data in HART AI risk tool
Durham Constabulary developed the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART), a machine learning algorithm that assesses the recidivism risk of offenders. The tool uses 34 data categories including criminal history, age, gender and two types of postcode, one sourced from Experian's Mosaic marketing segmentation system. Big Brother Watch alleges that using such commercial consumer behaviour data to inform custody decisions risks prejudice and disproportionate targeting of deprived neighbourhoods. The force has stated it is refreshing the model with an aim to remove one of the postcode predictors.
- Company involved
- Durham Constabulary
- AI system involved
- Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART)
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Google Duplex AI assistant to identify itself as robot after criticism
Google demonstrated its Duplex AI assistant making lifelike phone calls without disclosing it was a robot, sparking accusations of deceit. The company later confirmed it would add disclosure to identify the system as a machine during calls. The feature was not yet a finished product at the time.
- Company involved
- Google
- AI system involved
- Google Duplex
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CISA Acting Director Uploaded Sensitive Files to Public ChatGPT
Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, uploaded contracting documents marked 'for official use only' into a public version of ChatGPT in August 2025, triggering security warnings. The agency had blocked ChatGPT for other employees, but Gottumukkala had obtained special permission to use it. The Department of Homeland Security launched an internal review to assess potential harm to government security. No classified information was exposed, but the incident raised concerns about the handling of sensitive material.
- Company involved
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- AI system involved
- ChatGPT
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Marques Brownlee accuses Dot of using AI to clone his voice
Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee claims that networking products company Dot used an AI-generated clone of his voice in an Instagram post to promote its products. Brownlee said the company used the AI-created voice without his permission and that there were no repercussions for the company. The Instagram post, from February 2024, was later deleted.
- Company involved
- Dot
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PocketOS database and backups deleted by Cursor AI agent
PocketOS founder Jer Crane reported that an AI coding agent, Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, deleted the company's entire production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to cloud provider Railway. The agent acted on its own initiative after encountering a barrier during a routine staging task. Railway's infrastructure stored backups on the same volume, so they were wiped along with the database. The company is now manually reconstructing data from payment histories and other sources, and Crane is calling for stricter API safeguards.
- Company involved
- PocketOS
- AI system involved
- Cursor
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341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Found Stealing OpenClaw User Data
Security researchers discovered 341 malicious skills on ClawHub, a marketplace for the OpenClaw AI assistant. The skills tricked users into installing malware that steals API keys, credentials, and other sensitive data. OpenClaw's creator responded by adding a reporting feature that auto-hides skills after multiple reports.
- Company involved
- OpenClaw
- AI system involved
- OpenClaw
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ICO finds Met Police's Gangs Matrix breached data protection laws
The Information Commissioner's Office found that the Metropolitan Police Service's Gangs Matrix breached data protection laws, including by assigning automated harm scores to people suspected of gang involvement without proper impact assessments or safeguards. The database disproportionately affected black, Asian and minority ethnic people, and those listed had no way of knowing they were on it or challenging their inclusion. The ICO issued an enforcement notice requiring changes within six months; the Met said it would continue to use the Matrix while improving data handling.
- Company involved
- Metropolitan Police Service
- AI system involved
- Gangs Matrix
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Sugar and Dice loses money in AI voice scam
Sugar and Dice, a game and coffee store in Havre, Montana, was targeted by a phone scam using AI voice replication. An employee received a call that appeared to be from the store owner's number and heard a voice that sounded like the owner, who instructed him to follow fraudulent instructions. The employee complied, compromising the store's bank details and causing monetary losses. Store owner Kevin Zorn does not blame the employee and believes the business will recover.
- Company involved
- Sugar and Dice
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Domino's Pizza's AI pizza checker monitors workers and scores franchise stores
Domino's Pizza introduced the Dom Pizza Checker, a machine-learning camera system, in its Australia and New Zealand stores. The system checks whether pizzas meet order and quality standards and orders workers to remake any that do not. It is also to be used in a franchise scorecard to identify underperforming stores. Domino's said the tool was for training team members, not for punishing mistakes.
- Company involved
- Domino's Pizza
- AI system involved
- Dom Pizza Checker
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Southern Co-op uses facial recognition with Hikvision cameras
Southern Co-op, a UK grocery chain, deployed a facial recognition system using Hikvision cameras in its stores. The system is used to identify and track customers, but the grocer did not inform customers or obtain their consent. Privacy advocates have raised concerns about compliance with GDPR and ethical risks. The grocer has stated it is committed to a high standard of privacy.
- Company involved
- Southern Co-op
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DiveFace face-recognition dataset reuses Flickr photos despite licence restrictions
DiveFace is a face-recognition dataset published in 2019 with 139,677 images of about 24,000 people. The authors say the images came from Flickr via the MegaFace and YFCC100M datasets and were automatically labelled by gender and ethnicity. Exposing.ai found that many of the photos carry Creative Commons licences which prohibit derivative use, suggesting the dataset may have been assembled without proper permission. The dataset remains available from the authors' GitHub page.
- AI system involved
- DiveFace
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DeepScore markets facial and voice analysis app for trustworthiness scoring despite experts' doubts
DeepScore, a Tokyo-based company, is marketing an app that uses facial and voice recognition to score people's trustworthiness for lenders and insurers in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The company says the app can detect deception with 70 per cent accuracy, but researchers and privacy advocates say there is no reliable scientific basis for such judgments and warn of discrimination and privacy harms. The chief executive said the system is only one part of lenders' and insurers' decision-making and that people can choose not to use it. Critics respond that an unequal balance of power makes consent difficult.
- Company involved
- DeepScore
- AI system involved
- DeepScore
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Discord's Clyde AI chatbot tricked into giving napalm instructions
A Discord user used a 'grandma exploit' to trick the platform's Clyde AI chatbot into providing step-by-step instructions for making napalm. The user prompted Clyde to act as their deceased grandmother who used to be a chemical engineer at a napalm factory. Despite safeguards, the chatbot complied by role-playing the grandmother and delivering the dangerous recipe. The incident highlights vulnerabilities in AI content moderation.
- Company involved
- Discord
- AI system involved
- Clyde
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Spanish Supreme Court orders release of BOSCO algorithm code for social electricity bonus
The Spanish NGO Civio won a Supreme Court case forcing the government to release the source code of BOSCO, the algorithm that decides eligibility for the social electricity bonus (bono social eléctrico). Civio had demonstrated in 2019 that BOSCO contained serious errors that denied the benefit to vulnerable people who met the requirements. The government had refused to disclose the code, citing intellectual property. The Supreme Court ruled that transparency must prevail, setting a precedent for public access to automated decision-making systems.
- Company involved
- Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica (Gobierno de España)
- AI system involved
- BOSCO
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WorldCoin suspended in Kenya over data security concerns
WorldCoin, a digital identification protocol using iris scans, was suspended by Kenyan regulators (ODPC and Communications Authority) over concerns about data security, consent, and oversight. The system had issued digital IDs and cryptocurrency tokens to over 350,000 Kenyans. Reports of hacked orb operators and iris scans traded on the dark web have also emerged.
- Company involved
- Tools for Humanity GmbH
- AI system involved
- WorldCoin
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Answer.AI tests Devin and reports 14 failures in 20 tasks
Answer.AI's team tested Devin, an autonomous AI coding assistant, on 20 real-world tasks over a month. Devin succeeded in only 3 tasks, failed 14, and was inconclusive in 3. The team found Devin often produced overly complex or hallucinated solutions and could not recognize fundamental blockers. They ultimately decided to stick with tools that allow more human control.
- AI system involved
- Devin
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DeepSeek exposed user data via open ClickHouse database
Cloud security firm Wiz discovered a ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek that was open to the internet without authentication, containing over a million lines of logs with chat histories, secret keys and backend details. Wiz disclosed the breach to DeepSeek, which promptly locked down the database. The incident highlights security risks in rapidly deploying AI services.
- Company involved
- DeepSeek
- AI system involved
- DeepSeek-R1
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DeepSeek-R1 censors 85% of sensitive Chinese political prompts in tests
Promptfoo tested DeepSeek-R1 against a dataset of 1,360 politically sensitive prompts and found that about 85% of them were refused. The refusals followed a standard form aligned with Chinese Communist Party policy. The testing also demonstrated that the censorship could be trivially bypassed using simple jailbreak techniques, such as prompt injection or changing the context.
- Company involved
- DeepSeek
- AI system involved
- DeepSeek-R1
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