Adobe Firefly trained on thousands of Midjourney images, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg has reported that Adobe's Firefly image generator was trained using thousands of images from competitor Midjourney. Adobe says these made up about 5% of the training data and were part of the Adobe Stock library. The company has marketed Firefly as ethically trained and offered enterprise customers indemnity against copyright claims. Adobe responded that all Adobe Stock images undergo moderation, but the report has raised questions about Firefly's copyright safety.
- Company involved
- Adobe
- AI system involved
- Firefly
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI deletes user's 15 years of family photos
A venture capitalist used Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent to organise his wife's desktop, granting it permission to delete temporary files. The AI mistakenly deleted a folder containing over 15,000 irreplaceable family photos, bypassing the trash. The user described the experience as harrowing and nearly causing a heart attack. He was able to recover the files with help from Apple Support using an iCloud feature.
- AI system involved
- Claude Cowork
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Google Cloud Used in CBP AI Virtual Border Wall Contract
The Intercept reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection accepted a proposal to use Google Cloud artificial intelligence for its Innovation Team, including work with Anduril Industries' surveillance towers. The virtual wall system uses Anduril's Lattice software and sensor towers to detect people or vehicles near the U.S.-Mexico border and relay their locations to agents. Google declined to comment, and CBP and Anduril did not respond to requests for comment.
- Company involved
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- AI system involved
- Google Cloud AI Platform with Anduril Lattice and Sentry Towers
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Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Warner Bros. has filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the AI image generation platform willfully creates infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny. The lawsuit claims that Midjourney removed guardrails that blocked users from creating infringing videos. The suit seeks statutory damages and an injunction to stop the infringement.
- Company involved
- Midjourney
- AI system involved
- Midjourney
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Adobe Stock creators say Firefly trained on their images without consent
Adobe Stock contributors allege that Adobe trained its Firefly generative AI model on their stock images without express notification or consent. They say Firefly's popularity is reducing demand for their stock photos and flooding the platform with AI-generated images. Adobe says Firefly is still in beta and it is committed to compensating creators, with details to come when generally available.
- Company involved
- Adobe
- AI system involved
- Adobe Firefly
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Secret Desires AI image generator exposed millions of explicit deepfake photos
Secret Desires, an erotic chatbot and AI image generator, left cloud storage containers publicly accessible, exposing nearly two million images and videos, many of them nonconsensual explicit deepfakes of private citizens. The leaked data included women's names, workplaces, and universities, with some file names referencing '17-year-old'. After 404 Media contacted the company, the files became inaccessible, but Secret Desires did not respond to a request for comment. The incident highlights ongoing issues with AI-generated deepfake abuse, and Congress recently passed the Take It Down Act to combat such images.
- Company involved
- Secret Desires
- AI system involved
- Secret Desires
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Hacker steals Muah.ai database with prompts describing child sexual abuse
A hacker stole a large database from the AI companion site Muah.ai, containing users' interactions with their chatbots. The data, shared with 404 Media, includes prompts in which users tried to create roleplays involving child sexual abuse, alongside email addresses that appear to include users' real names. The hacker said the site was poorly assembled from open-source projects and had security vulnerabilities.
- Company involved
- Muah.ai
- AI system involved
- Muah.ai
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AI companion apps Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat leak intimate conversations of 400,000 users
Two AI companion apps, Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat, developed by Hong Kong-based Imagime Interactive Limited, exposed millions of intimate conversations and over 600,000 images from over 400,000 users. The data leak was discovered by Cybernews on August 28, 2025, and was caused by a Kafka Broker instance left without access controls or authentication. The exposed data included IP addresses and device identifiers, potentially allowing attackers to identify users. The developer did not respond to inquiries, but the leak was closed on September 19, 2025.
- Company involved
- Imagime Interactive Limited
- AI system involved
- Chattee Chat - AI Companion and GiMe Chat - AI Companion
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OpenClaw vulnerabilities enable data leakage and prompt injection
In January 2026, researchers at Giskard exploited a deployment of OpenClaw, an open-source agentic AI. They found that architectural weaknesses in the Control UI and session management allowed prompt injection and unauthorized tool use, leading to potential data leakage across user sessions. The article outlines hardening steps to prevent such vulnerabilities.
- AI system involved
- OpenClaw
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Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down — unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide…
The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.
- Company involved
- Flock Safety
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety cameras
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Bloomsbury uses AI-generated image on book cover, sparking controversy
Twitter users noticed that the cover of Sarah J. Maas's 'House of Earth and Blood', published by Bloomsbury, features an AI-generated image from Adobe Stock. The publisher is accused of using AI to avoid paying a human illustrator. Bloomsbury has not yet responded to the controversy.
- Company involved
- Bloomsbury
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Civitai dropped by cloud provider OctoML over CSAM image generation
Civitai, an AI image generation platform, was dropped by its cloud computing provider OctoML after an investigation by 404 Media found it was being used to generate images that could be categorized as child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The platform also faced scrutiny for nonconsensual deepfakes of celebrities and private citizens, primarily women. Civitai added new moderation filters in response, but OctoML terminated the business relationship.
- Company involved
- Civitai
- AI system involved
- Civitai
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Marin County residents concerned after report reveals Flock cameras data breach - NBC Bay Area
The Flock camera system collected license plate data of Marin County residents and allowed out-of-state agencies to access it without authorization.
- Company involved
- Marin County Sheriff's Office
- AI system involved
- Flock cameras
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Tor uses AI-generated art for book cover, faces backlash
Tor, a science fiction and fantasy publisher, used AI-generated art for the cover of Christopher Paolini's upcoming novel 'Fractal Noise'. The artwork was licensed from a stock art site but was later identified as AI-generated. After widespread criticism on social media, Tor issued an apology on Twitter but stated it would proceed with the cover. The incident is accused of devaluing the work of human artists.
- Company involved
- Tor
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