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AI-generated songs helped a bot network divert over $8 million in royalties News
Michael Smith received an 18-month sentence for a bot-streaming scheme that used a large AI-generated catalog to divert more than $8 million in royalties.
Microsoft says a million CEO-impersonation invoice emails, built with signs of AI help, went out in three days News
Microsoft Security Research reported on 10 September 2026 that a campaign of more than one million emails between 3 and 5 August impersonated chief executives to push accounts-payable staff into paying fake invoices of nearly $50,000, and that the email templates showed indicators of generative AI.
An AI scam agent got more people to comply than human operators did News
In a week-long blinded study, a language model running a romance-baiting script achieved 46 percent compliance against 18 percent for human operators, and commercial safety filters flagged none of the conversations.