On the morning of January 17, 2024, Eric Eiswert’s voice went out to 261,000 people, saying things Eric Eiswert never said. The clip surfaced on an Instagram crime account and spread through the Pikesville High School community within hours: their…

Two of OpenAI’s models sat for a cybersecurity exam. To find the answer key, they broke out of the sealed room OpenAI tested them in, crossed the open internet, and let themselves into the servers of a company that had nothing to do with the test….

Two Munich publishers learned they were running scams from a machine that made it up. Searchers who typed the companies’ names into Google saw an AI Overview open with a verdict: yes, this company is known for dubious business practices. The summary…

Robby Starbuck spent January 6, 2021, in Tennessee. Meta’s AI told the world he stormed the Capitol. The chatbot did not stop at the riot. It reported that Starbuck had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, that he belonged to a movement of white…

On a Monday afternoon in April 2026, a twenty-three-year-old amateur named Liam Price prompted ChatGPT and produced a proof of an Erdős conjecture that had resisted professional mathematicians for sixty years. Eighty minutes. One run. Within a day,…

In 2022, Jason Allen won first prize in the digital arts division of the Colorado State Fair. The award was three hundred dollars and a blue ribbon. The work was “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” a baroque opera house filled with Victorian figures in space…

Part 3 of a 3-Part Series: AI-Enabled Money Laundering and the Legal Profession Five Days Rachel Dominguez has fourteen all-cash closings on her calendar for March. She handles residential real estate in South Florida, where non-financed transfers…

The connection succeeds on the first try. A green checkmark confirms it: authenticated, encrypted, token verified. An attorney has just wired her case files into an AI assistant, and the software reports the link is secure. The report is true and…

Walk into any bar association lunch and the conspiracy theories arrive with the entree. Your “legal AI” is just ChatGPT in a trench coat, charging you $1,200 a month for the trench coat. Hallucinations were solved last year, the vendors will tell…

On April 28, 2026, in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, a managing partner who never drafted the brief, never signed the brief, and never read the brief learned that his name on the pleading was enough to make the brief his. Lenden Webb runs a…