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Oregon Lawyers Fined $110,000 Over AI-Hallucinated Citations
A federal judge dismissed an Oregon winery lawsuit and imposed $110,000 in fines and fees after filings were replete with citations from nonexistent cases. The judge called it a notorious outlier in AI-misuse sanctions.
Source: ABA Journal
An AI-Designed Bird Flu Vaccine Gave Complete Protection in Animals
Cambridge researchers and spinout DIOSynVax used AI to design a broad-spectrum bird flu vaccine from global virus genome data. In animal trials it fully protected mice and ferrets against diverse variants that have caused human infections, while the stockpiled WHO vaccine protected only about half. Human trials are the next step.
Source: Medical Xpress