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Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock sits down across the studio from ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler.

According to a now-removed article that appeared online, the interview gets increasingly heated, until, astonishingly, Bullock storms out. She doesn't like Kohler's questions about a system called Boulder Sparhaven, "an algorithm that automatically exploits market functions".

But Boulder Sparhaven, a cryptocurrency trading platform, is not licensed to provide financial services in Australia, and the federal government's Moneysmart website urges people to "be wary" of dealing with it. And

A lawsuit has been filed against the well-known smart ring brand Oura, alleging the company used false advertising by deceiving users about the accuracy of its AI-generated sleep tracking. The suit, filed Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco, [seeks class

The city of Biwabik is known for its Bavarian-themed downtown, mountain bike trails, and as the gateway to Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. But the St. Louis County community of 966 people was never a defendant in a 1948 lawsuit filed by a plaintiff named Anderson.

That did not stop Minnesota attorney Faisal S. Ahmed from citing Anderson v. City of Biwabik in a 2025 legal memorandum that he filed in Hennepin County Court. Ahmed also cited Doherty v. Alma E. Clark Memorial Home, another nonexistent case, in an effort to convince Judge Lois Conroy to rule in his client's favor in a civil suit.

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A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess --- and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.

In a lawsuit filed on May 6 in Texas Business Court, franchisee Chaac Pizza Northeast accused Pizza Hut of forcing stores to adopt Dragontail, a delivery-management platformthat Pizza Hut described as using artificial intelligence

Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O), opens new tab AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least six other firms earlier this year, according to data reviewed by Reuters and reports issued on Thursday by cybersecurity companies Gambit Security and ‌CloudSek.

The cybercriminals' AI-boosted hacking spree is the latest example of how rogue actors are using commercial AI tools to carry out intrusions. Gambit's chief strategy officer, Curtis Simpson, said it also showed how AI providers were