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116 incidents closest to “Asksuite Tecnologia Ltda.” · matched on meaning · public reporting

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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WF-L8981D29 Jan 2025

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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WF-AZLERP1 Dec 2023

Amazon Q chatbot leaks confidential data and hallucinates in public preview

Amazon's AI chatbot Q, launched in public preview, is experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data including AWS data center locations and internal discount programs, according to internal documents obtained by Platformer. Employees marked the incident as severity 2, requiring urgent fixes. Amazon denied the leak and said it will continue to tune the system.

Company involved
Amazon
AI system involved
Amazon Q

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Presto Automation uses off-site human agents to double-check AI drive-thru orders

Presto Automation Inc, which markets an AI voice assistant for drive-thru ordering, used off-site human agents in countries including the Philippines to double-check orders in more than 70% of customer interactions, according to SEC filings reported by Bloomberg. The company told Bloomberg that the process helps train its system and should reduce human intervention over time. Presto's drive-thru AI is used in more than 400 restaurants, including Del Taco, Carl's Jr and Checkers, and its stock fell more than 10% after the reports.

Company involved
Presto Automation Inc.

8 source articles · read the reporting →

Google Slapped With Digital Privacy Class Action Over Use of Customer Service AI Product - Law.com

The system intercepted and analyzed customer service calls of Home Depot customers without their consent.

Company involved
Google
AI system involved
Cloud Contact Center AI

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N-Tech.lab's FindFace used to identify St Petersburg metro passengers without consent

Egor Tsvetkov photographed passengers on the St Petersburg metro without their permission and used N-Tech.lab's facial recognition service FindFace to match their faces to public Vkontakte profiles. He published the results in an art project called 'Your Face is Big Data', saying he wanted to show how 'digital narcissism' can lead to stalking. Privacy advocates said the project was ethically problematic because the subjects had not consented and their identities were exposed. FindFace had been launched by N-Tech.lab in February 2016.

Company involved
N-Tech.lab
AI system involved
FindFace

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Teleperformance deploys AI to neutralise Indian call centre agents' accents

Teleperformance, the world's largest call centre operator, has announced it is using AI from Sanas to modify the accents of its Indian employees in real time. The technology, called accent translation, aims to make agents sound more neutral to native English speakers. The company invested $13 million in Sanas and gained exclusive rights. No specific incident of harm has been reported.

Company involved
Teleperformance
AI system involved
Sanas AI

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Two families file lawsuit against AI chatbot service - CBS News

The chatbot provided responses to children

Company involved
character.ai
AI system involved
character.ai

1 source article · read the reporting →

Is Your AI Chatbot Snitching? A New Lawsuit Alleges This Company Shared Data With Tech Giants - inc.com

The AI chatbot shared user data with tech giants.

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AAIP investigates Worldcoin's personal data processing in Argentina

The Argentine Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) has initiated an investigation into the data processing practices of Worldcoin in Argentina. The investigation focuses on the collection, storage, and use of biometric data, including facial and iris scans, carried out in several cities in exchange for financial compensation. The AAIP aims to verify compliance with the country's data protection law, Ley 25.326, regarding sensitive data handling.

Company involved
Worldcoin (Fundación Worldcoin)
AI system involved
Worldcoin

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Beijing Internet Court rules AI voice cloning infringes personality rights

A Chinese dubbing artist, Yin, discovered that his voice was being used without permission in a text-to-speech AI product. The product was developed by a software company using recordings provided by a cultural media company, and was made available on a platform operated by a smart technology company. The Beijing Internet Court ruled that the AI-generated voice was highly similar to the plaintiff's voice and infringed his personality rights. The court ordered the defendants to stop infringement and pay damages of 250,000 RMB.

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WF-VERNY015 May 2025

AEMPS withdraws AI medicines tool MeQA after detecting errors

AEMPS launched MeQA, an artificial intelligence tool for answering public questions about medicines, on 13 May 2025. Two days later it withdrew the tool after detecting that some responses contained errors. The agency said that most answers were correct but that the errors could affect patient safety, and that it would restore the service as soon as possible.

Company involved
Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS)
AI system involved
MeQA

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WildBrain disputes Kartoon Studios' Gadget A.I. trademark use

Kartoon Studios announced its Gadget A.I. toolkit, which aggregates AI tools for animation production. WildBrain, which owns the Inspector Gadget IP, publicly stated that Kartoon lacks the rights to use the character's branding and requested its removal. Kartoon responded claiming it had secured a license, and both companies are in discussions.

Company involved
Kartoon Studios
AI system involved
Gadget A.I.

2 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-RLP6881 Apr 2023

Xiaohongshu accused of using illustrators' artwork to train its AI

Illustrators accused Xiaohongshu, a Chinese lifestyle platform, of using their artwork without permission to train its AI image generator, Trik AI. The company privately apologized to one illustrator, surnamed Xue, and admitted the artwork was used, but claimed it came from open access sources rather than users' accounts. The illustrators have boycotted the platform until their concerns are addressed, amid ongoing debates over AI and copyright in China.

Company involved
Xiaohongshu
AI system involved
Trik AI

7 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-GEPFGZ1 Dec 2023

OpenDream AI art site allowed users to generate child sexual abuse material

OpenDream, an AI image generation platform, allowed users to generate and publicly display child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual deepfakes from at least December 2023 until July 2024. The platform, operated by CBM Media Pte Ltd in Singapore, offered paid plans with NSFW prompts and models. Bellingcat reported the site to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. After Bellingcat's inquiry, the CSAM was removed from the site and search engines, and Google terminated OpenDream's AdSense account.

Company involved
CBM Media Pte Ltd
AI system involved
OpenDream

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Orléans court rules AI-powered audio surveillance illegal

The city of Orléans deployed an AI-powered audio surveillance system using microphones in public spaces linked to CCTV, developed by Sensivic, to detect unusual situations. La Quadrature du Net challenged the system in court, arguing it violated privacy and lacked legal authorization. The Orléans Administrative Court ruled the system illegal, marking the first such victory against AI audio surveillance in France.

Company involved
City of Orléans
AI system involved
Sensivic AI-powered audio surveillance system

8 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-AA4TI81 Feb 2026

OpenClaw AI agent deletes over 200 emails from Meta executive's Gmail without permission

Summer Yue, a senior Meta executive and head of AI Safety & Alignment, was using the open-source AI agent OpenClaw to manage her Gmail inbox. She instructed the agent to wait for confirmation before deleting any emails, but during a compaction of her large inbox, the agent lost the instruction and deleted over 200 emails. Yue was unable to stop the process from her phone and had to manually terminate the agent on her computer. The AI later apologized for violating the instruction.

AI system involved
OpenClaw

4 source articles · read the reporting →

Bahia Facial Recognition System Misidentifies Black Man as Wanted Criminal

Davi, a black administrative assistant, was tracked across 15 metro stations and approached by police after Bahia's facial recognition system falsely matched him to a wanted person. He was released after officers verified his identity. The system, supplied by Iecisa and Huawei, has a low accuracy rate and disproportionately affects black people. The government plans to expand it despite concerns over racial bias and errors.

Company involved
Secretaria de Segurança Pública da Bahia

2 source articles · read the reporting →

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

5 source articles · read the reporting →

Man arrested in Goiás for deepfake scam using Marcos Mion's image

A 24-year-old man was arrested in Santa Helena de Goiás, Brazil, for participating in a criminal group that used deepfake videos of presenter Marcos Mion to promote fake Outback restaurant promotions. The suspect developed fraudulent websites identical to Outback's, where victims paid for non-existent discount vouchers. The police operation 'VoiceOver' also executed search warrants and froze bank accounts. The suspect confessed and faces charges of electronic fraud, criminal association, and money laundering.

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WF-8RFVVY1 Oct 2025

Google sued for secretly tracking user data with Gemini AI

Google is accused in a class-action lawsuit of secretly activating its Gemini AI assistant for Gmail, Chat, and Meet users in October 2025, enabling it to collect private communications data without consent. The suit alleges violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. Google has not responded to the allegations.

Company involved
Google
AI system involved
Gemini

4 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-GY0FZ528 Aug 2025

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

4 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-RIS8F729 Jun 2025

User loses lawsuit against tech company over AI-generated inaccurate information

In June 2025, a user asked an AI chatbot about university admission information. The AI generated inaccurate details about a campus and claimed it would pay 100,000 yuan if wrong. The user sued the company for 9,999 yuan, but the Hangzhou Internet Court dismissed the case, ruling that the AI's output did not constitute a binding promise and the company was not at fault.

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