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Monday, August 24, 2026

ChatGPT wrote expert testimony. 3 people died.

An expert witness reportedly used ChatGPT to craft testimony defending 3M in a lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people (yikes), while SpaceX just acquired Cursor AI to beef up Grok and their developer tools. Meanwhile, GLM-5.3 dropped at a competitive $1.40/$4.40 per million tokens, and Instinct allegedly kept storing user emails even after people disconnected their Google accounts. Would you trust AI to defend you in court?

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Instinct kept email records after users disconnected Google

Article content unavailable; title suggests Instinct may have improperly retained email data after users disconnected Google accounts, potentially indicating a data privacy violation.

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Hugging Face

OrcaRouter released an 'uncensored' version of Qwen's 27B vision-language model with safety alignment removed via abliteration, optimized for Apple Silicon and intended solely for AI safety research and red-teaming, not production use.

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GLM-5.3 hits the API at 1.4/4.4 per million tokens

VentureBeat

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 is now available via API at $5.80 per million combined tokens (input+output), matching GLM-5.2 pricing while delivering frontier-class performance that ties it with Kimi K3 as the world's top open weights model. The competitive pricing positions it well below premium models like Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, though increased verbosity may impact actual workload costs.

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A 3M expert told ChatGPT to show 3M was 0% at fault. Three people had died.

404 Media

An expert witness defending 3M in a fatal explosion lawsuit used ChatGPT to write his report, with prompts explicitly instructing the AI to show 3M was "0% at fault," raising serious questions about AI-generated expert testimony in high-stakes legal cases.

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SpaceXAI Completes Acquisition of Cursor AI

X (Twitter)

SpaceX has officially acquired Cursor AI, with the team joining SpaceXAI to improve Grok and expand AI product offerings including developer tools. The deal strengthens SpaceX's position in AI-powered coding assistance and enterprise AI tools.

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