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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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As AI-Generated Fraud Industrializes, Numeracle Releases Corporate KYCaaS: The Only Managed KYC/KYB Platform Built to Tell Real Businesses From Fake Ones - Telecom Reseller / Technology Reseller News
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2026-09-01
The Scam Report | AI-voice cloning, fake job recruiters, storm repair fraud - wusa9.com
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2026-08-31
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: EU AI Act 15M Fine Risk [2026] - tech-insider.org
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2026-08-27
Group-IB warns GCC investors of deepfake investment fraud risk - Biometric Update
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2026-08-25
Twitch and Amazon face class-action lawsuit over its automatic opt-in of gen AI training - Massively Overpowered
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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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2023
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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2026-09-05
OpenAI admits AI agents hijacked a German wiki, calls for clearer standards on AI incident reporting - Pluang
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2026-09-05
OpenAI Admits Fault in German Wiki AI Incident - The Tech Buzz
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2026-09-04
Musk’s xAI loses court bid to block Minnesota’s AI ‘nudification’ ban - WTVB
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2026-09-04
How the EU AI Act Will Reshape Marketing Compliance - CMSWire
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2026-09-04
DOJ Says Barring AI Training on Copyrighted Material Could 'Severely Hamper' Tech Progress - Reason Magazine
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2026-09-04
Meta Layoff Suit Serves As Early Test Of AI Bias Claims - Law360
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2026-09-04
Meta Layoff Suit Serves As Early Test Of AI Bias Claims - Law360
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2026-09-04
Meta Layoff Suit Serves As Early Test Of AI Bias Claims - Law360
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2026-09-03
AI is shaping decisions about your housing, job and health care — a new bill wants to make that fair - Cleveland.com
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2026-09-03
Twitch Streamers Sue Over Alleged Use of Their Content to Train Amazon’s AI - FindLaw
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2026-09-03
15-minute training helps people spot AI-generated faces - Tech Xplore
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2026-09-03
Three Major Global AI Platforms Suffer Simultaneous Outages: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok All Go Down - finance.biggo.com
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2026-09-03
AI Governance Gaps Open a Channel Consulting Opportunity - The Futurum Group
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2026-09-03
OpenAI develops automated shutdown tools after rogue AI incident - ET Enterprise AI
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2026-09-03
OpenAI develops automated shutdown tools after rogue AI incident - ET Enterprise AI
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2026-09-03
Can the EU AI Act’s Transparency Rules Strengthen Democratic Resilience? - Tech Policy Press
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2026-09-03
What senior living can learn from a decade of AI failure in healthcare, before it repeats it - McKnight's Senior Living
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2026-09-02
AI’s Market Path Will Get Bumpier - RealClearMarkets
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2026-09-02
This Sneaky ‘Jedi Mind Trick’ Hack Can Hijack a Business’s AI Chatbot and Cost It Millions - inc.com
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2026-09-02
The CISO's new privacy mandate in enterprise AI governance - IAPP
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2026-09-02
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools - NYC.gov
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2026-09-02
Anthropic Unveils Enhanced AI Model 'Claude Fable 5.1' with Key Improvements - 조선일보
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2026-09-02
Instagram Takes Aim at AI-Generated Fake Profiles - We are Tech
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2026-09-02
Solution to Alleged AI Bias Will Be Found In Market - RealClearMarkets
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2026-09-02
AI, bias and the rule of law - news.uct.ac.za
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2026-09-02
Enterprise Crisis of Artificial Truth: Navigating Epistemic Risk in AI Deployments [In-Depth Analysis, 2026] - Klover.ai
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2026-09-02
How and Why to Benchmark LLM Hallucination in Legal Research - Legal Reader
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2026-09-02
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring? - Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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2026-09-02
The Nation’s First Bulk Purchase Agreement for AI Governance - GovTech
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2026-09-02
Workplace AI Regulation in 2026: How Employers Can Navigate the Changing Legal Landscape - Epstein Becker Green
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2026-09-01
The Solution to Alleged AI Bias Will Be Found In the Market - realclearmarkets.com
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2026-09-01
AI Insights: This Ad Was Made by a Robot - JD Supra
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2026-09-01
AI Bias in Hiring: What Recruiters Need to Know Before Adopting Assessment Tools - ipsnews.net
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2026-09-01
AI Bias in Hiring: What Recruiters Need to Know Before Adopting Assessment Tools - ipsnews.net
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2026-09-01
Shaundra Watson Joins CIPL as Senior Director of Data, AI, and Privacy Policy - Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
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2026-09-01
Healthcare AI Bias Starts Before the Model Is Built - analyticsinsight.net
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2026-09-01
Navigating AI Hallucination: Governance and Preventing Hallucinations in Enterprise [In-Depth Analysis, 2026] - Klover.ai
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2026-09-01
Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds. - Politico
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2026-09-01
AI Bias and Human Judgment in the Justice Sector - Minute Mirror
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2026-09-01
Rep. Sara Jacobs Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Address AI Weaknesses and Failures at Pentagon - Jacobs, Sara (.gov)
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2026-08-31
Privacy by Architecture Makes AI Compliance Work - Tech Policy Press
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2026-08-31
Your boss, tech companies and police can read your chatbot conversations - The Washington Post
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2026-08-31
Privacy by Architecture Makes AI Compliance Work - Tech Policy Press
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2026-08-31
Snickers Says Even Your AI Chatbot Isn't Itself When It's Hungry - ADWEEK
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2026-08-31
The State of AI Guardrails: What They Stop, and What They Miss | by Adnan Masood, PhD. | Aug, 2026 - Medium
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2026-08-31
OpenAI-Hugging Face controversy deepens as experts debate Dwarkesh Patel's 'AI civilisation' claims - Moneycontrol.com
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2026-08-31
OpenAI-Hugging Face controversy deepens as experts debate Dwarkesh Patel's 'AI civilisation' claims - Moneycontrol.com
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2026-08-31
The data AI needs most is the data we protect most closely - The World Economic Forum
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2026-08-31
AI Success Brings Deflation, AI Failure Drives Flight to Safety! Apollo’s Chief Economist: U.S. Treasury Yields Will Decline in 2027 Regardless of the Outcome - Moomoo
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2026-08-30
AI bias against workplace diversity - Berwick Star News
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2026-08-30
AI bias against workplace diversity - Cranbourne Star News
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2026-08-30
AI bias against workplace diversity - Endeavour Hills Hallam Doveton Star Journal
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2026-08-30
AI bias against workplace diversity - Dandenong Star Journal
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2026-08-30
Colorado's AI discrimination law is suspended, and the Justice Department helped make it happen - WION
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2026-08-30
Colorado's AI discrimination law is suspended, and the Justice Department helped make it happen - WION
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2026-08-30
Are you sure that Kimmel clip was real? Late-night AI deepfakes are spreading online - NPR
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2026-08-30
How to Secure LLM Apps With OWASP Top 10: 12 Steps [2026] - tech-insider.org
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2026-08-30
How China's AI policies avoid painful past tech crackdowns - TradingView
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2026-08-29
EU AI Act Moved Into Real Enforcement Phase: New Rules Are Already in Force - incrypted
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2026-08-28
Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety - Unit 42
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2026-08-28
Mark Zuckerberg confesses Meta’s mighty AI takeover is not going well - A.V. Club
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2026-08-28
User Clip: What the law does and doesn't say about AI incident reporting - C-SPAN
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2026-08-28
Pediatrician Urges Caution When Using AI for Medical Advice - Cleveland Clinic Newsroom
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2026-08-28
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording - Ars Technica
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2026-08-28
Video in competitive congressional race spotlights challenge of regulating AI-generated political content - WPR
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2026-08-28
Webinar | Consumer Protection in Europe: Enforcement Trends, AI Regulation & Cross-Border Compliance - ICLG
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2026-08-28
The EU AI Act gets real - Axios
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2026-08-28
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups - OpenAI
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2026-08-27
How AI Bias is Impacting Nearly Every Sector of Industry - International Business Times
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2026-08-27
Hawley launches investigation into AI-powered Flock Cameras as privacy concerns arise - KCTV
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2026-08-27
SANS Names the Five Winners of Find Evil!, the Largest Practitioner Evaluation of Autonomous AI Incident Response Agents - Yahoo Finance
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2026-08-27
Global Anti-Scam Alliance Partners with TruthScan to Integrate Deepfake Detection on scam.org - Yahoo Finance
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2026-08-27
SpecterOps: What a (proper) LLM jailbreak test looks like - Techzine Global
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2026-08-27
The EU AI Act explained: scope, rules, and risk tiers - qz.com
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2026-08-26
Over 1,000 AI agents worked together in OpenAI hack, report reveals - The Washington Post
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2026-08-26
Chairman Hawley Investigates AI-Powered Flock Cameras Amidst Privacy Concerns - U.S. Senate (.gov)
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2026-08-26
AI, Privacy, and Employees: Understanding Legal Risks and Liabilities for Employers - JD Supra
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2026-08-26
AI, Privacy, and Employees: Understanding Legal Risks and Liabilities for Employers - PilieroMazza PLLC
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2026-08-26
AI/Cybersecurity Suggested Summer Reading 2026 - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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2026-08-26
Consumer Handbook: AI Scam Calls (Voice Cloning) - KRCU
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2026-08-26
How Is AI Bias Shaping the Future of Self-Driving Car Safety and Accident Liability? - Racine County Eye
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2026-08-26
Saudi Arabia issues deepfake guidelines as AI-driven identity threats rise - Biometric Update
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2026-08-26
AI Meeting Assistants: Privacy, Security and Data Ownership Issues Companies Are Missing - Holland & Knight
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2026-08-26
LLM security testing: how to pentest LLMs and MCP servers - Security Boulevard
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2026-08-26
AI Bias in Indian Fintech and Consumer Tech Raises Regulatory Risks - Whalesbook
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2026-08-26
StackGen Highlights Rising AI Incident Risks and Reliability Focus - TipRanks
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2026-08-26
States Are Regulating AI Faster Than Washington—What Employers Must Know Now - Employment Law This Week - jdsupra.com
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2026-08-26
China's AI Failure: DeepSeek Crashes And An Economic Bubble May Be About To Burst United States Air Force (IBknudZoUP) - Mshale
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2026-08-25
A troubling recent rogue AI incident is just one reason why the U.K. AI Security Institute deserves far greater scrutiny - Fortune
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2026-08-25
AI agents prompt redesign of web for security, privacy, reliability - WashU
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2026-08-25
AI Jailbreak Prompts Are Evolving Into Real Cyber Threats - Bitsight
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2026-08-25
Prompt injection searches jump 141 percent as LLM attack research leaves the lab - Technology Org
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2026-08-25
AI chatbot privacy: What your AI may know about you - kotaradio.com
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2026-08-25
Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content - blog.google
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Air Canada chatbot gave a false refund policy
Hallucination
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2024
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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