Deloitte Australia offers partial refund for $290,000 government report after academics expose AI-generated fake citations and fabricated quotes falsely attributed to real professors, with the consulting firm quietly admitting to using GPT-4o without disclosure.
Deloitte issues partial refund to Australian government for $440,000 welfare compliance report after AI generates fake academic references and nonexistent court cases, prompting criticism that the consulting giant has a 'human intelligence problem' despite maintaining its recommendations remain valid.
Social scientist Abilio Almeida calls for tech leaders to 'pay back' society by redirecting AI and algorithms from serving private interests to the common good, warning that despite technological advances, social progress has stagnated since the shift from television's public service model to today's profit-driven digital ecosystem.
Federal judge delivers landmark antitrust ruling against Google, banning exclusive search deals that made Google the default on phones and devices while allowing the tech giant to keep its Chrome browser, marking the most significant monopoly case since Microsoft in the 1990s.
GoFundMe launches Giving Funds, a revolutionary zero-fee donor-advised fund service that lets users invest charitable money tax-free through Goldman Sachs partnerships while sending 100% of donations directly to nonprofits with no minimum balance requirements.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promotes Judson Althoff to lead the company's commercial business division as part of a major restructuring designed to help Microsoft capitalize on what Nadella describes as a 'tectonic AI platform shift' in the technology industry.
Salesforce slashes 4,000 customer support jobs as AI bots now handle half the company's workload, reducing human staff from 9,000 to 5,000 positions while CEO Marc Benioff credits 'Agentforce' technology for the dramatic workforce reduction.
Machine translation errors plague up to 60% of Wikipedia articles in vulnerable African languages, creating a devastating 'linguistic doom loop' where AI systems train on flawed content and amplify mistakes, forcing Greenlandic Wikipedia toward closure and threatening the digital preservation of endangered languages worldwide.
Google launches an AI agent tool that lets users query vast public datasets on health, climate, census, and economics through simple natural language commands, eliminating the need for complex coding and enabling policy analysts to instantly access millions of datapoints for research and analysis.
GSA launches groundbreaking OneGov partnership with Meta, granting all federal agencies streamlined access to Llama AI models while maintaining data control, slashing costs, and accelerating government-wide artificial intelligence adoption under President Trump's AI Action Plan.