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A humanoid robot demonstration has sparked safety concerns after a video circulating on social media appeared to show a Unitree G1 robot accidentally kicking a young child during a public event.

The robot, which was performing a roundhouse kick while wearing a blue clown wig, struck the child in the stomach, causing the youngster to double over in pain.

The incident has reignited debate over the safe deployment of advanced humanoid robots in crowded public settings, particularly as increasingly capable machines are showcased at exhibitions and entertainment events.

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Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network on Friday, accusing it of using the company's artificial intelligence to blast online financial scams to hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The internet giant also said it was coordinating for the first time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon to shut down the network, known as Outsider Enterprise.

The Chinese group used Gemini, Google's A.I. system, to create hundreds of fake websites mimicking companies like Google and YouTube and government operations like the Postal Service and New Yo

After Sault Ste. Marie's Judy Skene was scammed of nearly a million dollars by a case of online fraud, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has offered advice to the public to spare them from suffering a similar ordeal.

Skene, an elderly widow with no children, was deceived in July 2025 by a Facebook ad that featured an AI-generated deepfake video of Prime Minister Mark Carney urging people to inv

A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

Two of the lawyers have been barred for two years from appearing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi for their conduct, while all four were removed from the case and fined.

The case stemmed from a 2023 breach of contract lawsuit over legal fees that Tom Withers III, a Louisiana lawyer, claimed he was never paid by the city of Aberdeen, Miss.,

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company's chatbot.

Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI's safety