An Ohio man, James Strahler II, became the first person convicted under a new federal AI statute for cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated sexually explicit images. He pleaded guilty to charges including cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse, and publishing digital forgeries, with the last charge related to the Take It Down Act.

Brian Chase claims that Google suspended his Gmail, Voice, and Photos accounts after he uploaded law enforcement reports to NotebookLM, an AI tool for summarizing and answering questions about uploaded files. Chase is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona law school and manages digital forensics and eDiscovery at a firm.