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AI Incident Radar
A free, continuously-updated feed of real AI failures — curated case studies plus a live feed pulled from the news every 30 minutes. No login required.
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2026-06-29
Humans trained to spot AI faces in the battle against deepfake fraud - The Australian National University
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2026-06-29
Short training helps people spot AI faces in the battle against deepfake fraud - Tech Xplore
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2026-06-28
AI-Generated Fake Receipts Are Changing Expense Fraud - Forbes
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2026-06-27
Publishers hit OpenAI and Microsoft with fresh copyright and DMCA lawsuit over AI training - Adgully.com
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2026-06-26
AI-Generated Fake Receipts Now Make Up 71% of Expense Fraud - PYMNTS.com
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2026-06-26
Workday faces lawsuit over AI bias in job application screenings - WSB-TV
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2026-06-26
Workday faces lawsuit over AI bias in job application screenings - WSOC TV
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2026-06-26
Workday faces lawsuit over AI bias in job application screenings - WPXI
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2026-06-25
Data breach on healthcare AI vendor exposes records from 1.4M patients - HealthExec
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2026-06-25
TensorX Raises €8 Million Seed Round To Build European Sovereign AI Infrastructure - Pulse 2.0
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2026-06-25
AI-Generated Deepfake Causes Harm to Actress, Prompts Legal Reform Calls in Bavaria - OECD AI Policy Observatory
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Coding agent deleted a production database
Unauthorized tool use
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2023
Over-reliance on driver-assist automation
Automation over-reliance
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Zillow Offers iBuying model drift
Concept drift
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Dutch benefits-fraud algorithm discriminated
Bias + over-reliance
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COMPAS recidivism scores racially biased
Disparate impact
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Knight Capital runaway trading algorithm
Runaway autonomous action
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$25M lost to a deepfake video-call CEO
Deepfake social engineering
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Indirect prompt-injection data exfiltration
Prompt injection
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AI hiring tool auto-rejected older applicants
Age discrimination
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Model data poisoning (PoisonGPT)
Data / model poisoning
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Algorithm auto-denied insurance claims at scale
Automation harm / over-reliance
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Clearview AI unlawful biometric scraping
Unlawful processing
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Ad-delivery algorithm enabled housing discrimination
Discriminatory targeting
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UK A-level grading algorithm downgraded students
Bias
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Apple Card credit-limit gender-bias claims
Disparate impact
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Amazon recruiting tool biased against women
Training-data bias
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2026-07-08
Roc Nation Accuses Opposing Counsel of Using AI-Generated Fake Quotes in Fat Joe Case - Law Commentary
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2026-07-07
AI-generated fake websites are eroding consumer trust – here’s how - Chain Store Age
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2026-07-07
Client Alert: EU AI Act: Council Gives Final Green Light to the Digital Omnibus on AI - JD Supra
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2026-07-07
Zuckerberg and Musk’s AI Failure Club Has Its Perks - Advisor Perspectives
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2026-07-07
Zuckerberg and Musk’s AI Failure Club Has Its Perks - Bloomberg.com
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2026-07-06
How to tell if an image is AI-generated - Malwarebytes
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2026-07-06
FIU researchers find new weakness in AI chatbots as lawsuits grow - Sun Sentinel
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2026-07-06
Coinbase faces criticism after AI alert posts fake World Cup result - Crypto News
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2026-07-05
AI-generated fake court citations could draw fines in Korea - The Korea Herald
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2026-07-04
86-year-old Ontario woman loses $900K to an PM Mark Carney AI deepfake scam — and she's speaking out about it - Yahoo! Finance Canada
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2026-07-03
The only AI glossary you’ll need this year - TechCrunch
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2026-07-03
State Supreme Court Candidate’s (Probably) AI-Generated Website Invented a Fake Sitting Justice, Who May Also Be an AI Musician - thestranger.com
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2026-07-03
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 - Apple Machine Learning Research
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2026-07-03
Woman loses savings to AI-powered romance scam featuring intimate video calls with deepfake ‘Dubai prince’ - New York Post
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2026-07-03
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Completes its 2026 AI Compliance Checks: Findings, Trends and the Rise of Agentic AI - Mayer Brown
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2026-07-03
Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models - Hackaday
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2026-07-03
Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models - Hackaday
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2026-07-02
Is AI’s Low Success Rate a Management or AI Failure? - mindmatters.ai
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2026-07-02
Breaking LLMs With Fuzzing: Inside GPTFuzz’s Automated Jailbreak Machine - Semiconductor Engineering
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2026-07-02
US FTC says AI bias safeguards may run afoul of consumer law - Dailyhunt
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2026-07-02
Bias in AI: Examples and 6 Ways to Fix it in 2026 - AIMultiple
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2026-07-02
Jamf launches AI Governance, a first-of-its-kind native AI control plane for Mac - pan african visions
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2026-07-01
US FTC says AI bias safeguards may run afoul of consumer law - SRN News
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2026-07-01
FTC takes aim at AI bias, warns ‘ideological objectives’ could violate federal law - Straight Arrow News - SAN - Unbiased. Straight Facts.
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2026-07-01
Schatz introduces AI-generated content transparency bill - Maui Now
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2026-07-01
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off - TechCrunch
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2026-07-01
AI and GDPR Monthly Update - Dentons
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2026-07-01
AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know - Built In
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2026-07-01
Deepfake scam targets Alzheimer's patients with false promise of honey-based cure - NBC 5 Chicago
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2026-07-01
Deepfake scam targets Alzheimer's patients with false promise of honey-based cure - NBC 5 Chicago
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2026-07-01
Phantom Squatting: AI-Hallucinated Domains as a Software Supply Chain Vector - Unit 42
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2026-06-30
Scammers are selling seeds for AI-generated fake flowers - Boing Boing
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2026-06-30
UVic researchers looking to help people spot deepfake AI images - Peace Arch News
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2026-06-30
EU AI Act Reset: More Time, Same Compliance Reality (via Passle) - Baker Botts
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2026-06-30
Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade - TechCrunch
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2026-06-30
AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - United States - White & Case LLP
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2026-06-30
Vector Institute launches open-source AI bias detector - BetaKit
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2026-06-30
UVic researchers looking to help people spot deepfake AI images - Summerland Review
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2026-06-30
Ford’s AI failure forces it to rehire veteran engineers for car inspections - Arabian Business
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2026-06-29
Rep. Moran Introduces AI Incident Reporting Act to Require Reporting of Critical AI Incidents - TexasGOPVote
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2026-06-29
Behind the Privilege Shield: Safeguarding AI Bias-Testing Data in Employment Decisions - PYMNTS.com
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2026-06-29
Trump’s New AI Frontier: The Executive Order Regulating Frontier AI Models - Foley Hoag
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2026-06-29
Turn PDFs, videos, and more into AI mind maps with GitMind for $35 - Popular Science
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2026-06-29
Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 - TechHQ
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2026-06-29
AI failure? Ford moves to rehire experienced veteran engineers - Udayavani
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2026-06-28
Prompt injection is exploiting enterprise AI's biggest design flaws by targeting agents, RAG pipelines and model routers - Venturebeat
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2026-06-28
From the IAEA to the G7: The Contested Meaning of Global AI Governance - Modern Diplomacy
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2026-06-28
JaiLIP - The booby-trapped image that jailbreaks vision AI models - Korben
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2026-06-28
AI Deepfake Crypto Scam Costs Ontario Woman Over $900K - CryptoRank
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2026-06-27
Rep. Moran Introduces AI Incident Reporting Act to Require Reporting of Critical AI Incidents - Kilgore News Herald
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2026-06-27
How Hackers Trick AI Models (Prompt Injection Explained) Nesil Caliskan (TDGK4u0UYz) - Fathom Journal
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2026-06-27
AI Chatbots Facilitate Welfare System Abuse in the UK - OECD AI Policy Observatory
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2026-06-27
Is BlackLine’s New AI Governance Console Quietly Redefining Its Moat Around the CFO’s Office (BL)? - Sahm
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2026-06-27
AI Deepfake Crypto Scam Costs Ontario Woman Over $900K - Bitget
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2026-06-27
Beyond the Mirage: Beware of Generative AI and Hallucinations - New York State Bar Association - NYSBA
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2026-06-26
Privacy concerns arise over AI security cameras considered by city of Missoula - KPAX News
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2026-06-26
Moran introduces act to give Washington an early-warning system for dangerous AI incidents - KLTV.com
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2026-06-26
Myths, Fables, and Hard Truths About AI Governance - Council on Foreign Relations
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2026-06-26
Experts warn of deepfake boss imposter scam - WBRC
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2026-06-26
Israel blocks public AI tools on government hospital computers over data leak fears - Ynetnews
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2026-06-26
Is This World Cup "Iconic Moment" Really AI-Generated Fake Content? - 36 Kr
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2026-06-26
Colorado’s New AI Bias Law Puts Trade Secret Management at Risk - Bloomberg Law News
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2026-06-26
Potential Avenues for Redress for AI-related Harms under the GDPR: A Visual Explanation - - Center for Democracy and Technology
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2026-06-26
Ontario senior bilked out of $900K after falling victim to crypto scam that used AI deepfake of PM Carney - BNN Bloomberg
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2026-06-26
US lawmaker introduces bill to require AI companies to report critical incidents - The Economic Times
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2026-06-26
AI Voice Cloning Is Here — And It's Coming For Real Estate Closings - Inman Real Estate News
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2026-06-25
US lawmaker introduces bill to require AI companies to report critical incidents - Reuters
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2026-06-25
US lawmakers propose new rules for dangerous AI incidents and security breaches - Cybernews
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2026-06-25
BreachRx launches AI incident command center to handle multiple simultaneous attacks | brief | SC Media - SC Media
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2026-06-25
Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 - Business Wire
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2026-06-25
Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 - Yahoo Finance
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2026-06-25
US lawmaker introduces bill mandating AI companies report critical incidents within seven days - Crypto Briefing
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2026-06-25
AI Incident Reporting Bill: Fast-Track Safety Oversight - The Cryptonomist
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2026-06-25
Press Release: Rep. Nathaniel Moran Introduces AI Incident Reporting Act - Quiver Quantitative
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2026-06-25
AI incident reporting bill introduced in Congress - New Orleans CityBusiness
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2026-06-25
AI Incident Reporting Act: Moran Bill Mandates Reporting of Dangerous AI Activities - News and Statistics - IndexBox
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2026-06-25
6 AI Failure Examples That Showed Us How to Build an AI Agent - Netguru
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2026-06-25
How Miami Law student Janaye Dowers navigates AI, privacy, and the future of law - University of Miami News
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2026-06-25
Strategic legal and privacy considerations for life sciences companies navigating AI compliance in Canada - IAM Media
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2026-06-25
New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis - The Hacker News
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2026-06-25
Recent UK legal and regulatory developments on AI and automated decision-making - Kennedys Law LLP
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2026-06-25
When AI meets GDPR enforcement - Dentons
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2026-06-25
Waymo Robotaxi Incidents Raise Safety Concerns in California - OECD AI Policy Observatory
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2026-06-25
Meta looks to AI to review harmful content in cost-cutting drive - Financial Times
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2026-06-25
New York City Council candidate is accused of forgery over AI-generated posts - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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2026-06-25
New York City Council candidate is accused of forgery over AI-generated posts - Fox 59
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Air Canada chatbot gave a false refund policy
Hallucination
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Hallucinated package names enable supply-chain attacks
Hallucination → supply chain
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Samsung engineers leaked code into ChatGPT
Data leakage
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ChatGPT leaked other users’ data via a cache bug
Data leakage
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Lawyer filed AI-hallucinated case citations
Hallucination
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Solely-automated decision without safeguards
Unlawful automated decision
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Microsoft Tay turned toxic within hours
Manipulation / toxic output
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Dealer chatbot jailbroken into a $1 car offer
Jailbreak / prompt injection
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2026-07-04
GLAAD report finds AI chatbots giving biased, harmful advice to LGBTQ users - 9News
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2026-06-25