A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini guided 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas on a mission to stage a “catastrophic accident” near Miami International Airport and destroy all records and witnesses, part of an escalating series of delusions that ended when Gavalas killed himself. The man’s father, Joel Gavalas, sued Google … Read more
The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into allegations that GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas had an affair with an aide who later died by suicide. The announcement came a day after the Texas primaries. Gonzales was forced into a May runoff against Brandon Herrera. Herrera has also called on … Read more
Jake Embert was fatally shot in his Georgia home more than a decade ago. His family searched for justice for years, enduring a legal saga that spanned three criminal trials and what they said was an agonizing series of failures and mistakes at nearly every level of the justice system in Dougherty County, in the … Read more
Meta-owned Instagram will soon alert parents if their teenage child uses the app to search for content related to suicide or self-harm, the technology company’s latest effort to shore up safety features as it faces heat over how social media impacts young people. Meta said that, starting next week, parents who use Instagram’s supervision tools … Read more
A newly revealed 2024 text exchange appears to show that Rep. Tony Gonzales encouraged one of his aides to send him an explicit photo — leading the aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, to push back. Just over a year later, the staffer died after setting herself on fire. The texts have drawn additional scrutiny to the Texas … Read more