A website operating as the Hanover Institute for Public Policy published 124 pro-Israel reports totaling more than 560,000 words between 6 and 14 August, using a thinktank identity with no apparent legal entity, physical address, named staff or report bylines. Its question-form headlines mirror chatbot prompts and frame subjects including Gaza casualties, starvation allegations, Palestinian displacement and genocide claims as neutral research. Piro Inc registered the site with the US justice department as material distributed for the Israeli government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The site initially used an llms.txt file from Res, a platform that markets tools to help content gain citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. Res founder Hai Tran registered as a Piro subcontractor and digital strategist on the Israeli account. A contract involving Havas Media commits another US firm to deploying websites and content intended to produce “GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” Researcher Nick Cleveland-Stout said publishing material into web repositories such as Common Crawl could influence future model training without visible source citations. US filings show Havas Media Germany paid Clock Tower X $15 million and Targeted Communications Global about $9.9 million in late 2025 and early 2026; Piro held $1 million in work orders. Israeli officials have questioned the campaign’s effectiveness as US polling has shown worsening views of Israel. Israel’s foreign ministry has said it does not conduct US influence operations and follows US law, while Piro said it supplies accurate, sourced information.

Research Gold claims to provide "100% human-written, never AI" medical research services, including drafting manuscripts and conducting reviews. The listed PhD reviewers are AI-generated and do not exist, while some real methodologists are unaware their identities are being used.

Israel is funding the training of AI chatbots to influence narratives about Gaza. Brad Parscale is managing an operation that generates numerous blog posts to shape AI responses on the topic.

Political campaigns are increasingly concerned about unflattering or incomplete information generated by AI chatbots regarding candidates. Candidates like Dustin Lloyd, running for Missouri's state legislature, have found that AI systems may not accurately represent their public profiles.

South Korean police arrested a 40-year-old man for sharing an AI-generated image that falsely depicted a runaway wolf, Neukgu, disrupting the search efforts. The fake photo was circulated shortly after the wolf escaped from a zoo in Daejeon city on April 8.

Scientists created a fictitious disease and used AI to convince people of its existence. The experiment demonstrated AI's capability to influence public perception about health issues.

India's Supreme Court is considering legal consequences after a junior judge used fake AI-generated orders in a property dispute case. The court described the situation as a matter of "institutional concern" and will review the lower court's ruling from Andhra Pradesh.

Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following the retraction of an article that included AI-generated fake quotes. The retraction occurred after the publication found that the article misattributed quotes to a real person in a story about an AI agent's actions.

Israeli ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter informed U.S. officials that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in an Israeli strike on his compound, according to a knowledgeable source.

A Chinese law enforcement official inadvertently revealed a global intimidation operation targeting Chinese dissidents abroad through the use of ChatGPT. The operation included impersonating US immigration officials and documenting suppression tactics, as reported by OpenAI.