Real companies, real deployments, real sources — across healthcare, finance, retail, logistics, legal, manufacturing, and more. Each one gets an honest verdict: did it hold up, or was it noise?
Figures are attributed to their source and dated. Vendor-reported numbers are labeled as such — a company's own claim, not an independent audit.
27 deep dives — the full story, what actually happened, and the so-what.
27 case studies
Klarna · 2024–2025
JPMorgan Chase · 2017–ongoing
Air Canada · 2022–2024
Moderna · 2020–ongoing
Zillow · 2018–2021
Walmart · 2025
GitHub Copilot (multi-org studies) · 2023–2025
Microsoft Security Copilot · 2025–ongoing
McDonald's × IBM · 2021–2024
Amazon · 2014–2017
Harvey AI × Allen & Overy · 2023–ongoing
UPS · 2013–ongoing
Siemens · 2025–ongoing
Duolingo · 2025–2026
Dutch Tax Administration · 2013–2021
UnitedHealthcare · 2019–ongoing
Google DeepMind · 2019–ongoing
CNET · 2022–2023
Levidow, Levidow & Oberman (law firm) · 2023
Amazon · 2019–ongoing
Bank of America · 2018–ongoing
Coca-Cola · 2024–2025
John Deere · 2021–ongoing
T-Mobile × OpenAI · 2025–ongoing
easyJet · 2015–ongoing
GM Cruise · 2023
Hilton × IBM Watson · 2016–2018
The raw feed, not the editorial: live records from the AI Incident Database, a citation-backed public database of real AI deployments causing real harm — pulled fresh on every visit, newest first, unedited. This is what keeps the list growing daily without anyone here inventing a statistic.
Live — newest record Jul 28
94 records
Legal Services
CASCADE, Iowa -- Officials said three Cascade High School students are charged in connection with an incident in which artificial intelligence was used to generate nude images of students. A Dubuque County Attorney's Office press release i ...
Automotive & Mobility
The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. O ...
Automotive & Mobility
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For a week now, neighbors in San Francisco's Mission District have shared their sadness and outrage over the death of KitKat, the neighborhood cat. The cat's owner says a Waymo ran him over. A memorial still marks th ...
Automotive & Mobility
A cat known as the "mayor of 16th Street" was allegedly run over by a Waymo autonomous vehicle, according to the cat's owner, sparking grief around the Mission Dolores bodega where he roamed. KitKat, a feline fixture at Randa's Market, was ...
Automotive & Mobility
A San Francisco community is in mourning after a beloved neighborhood store cat was allegedly hit and killed by a Waymo self-driving taxi. According to reports from CBS Bay Area, SFGate and the San Francisco Standard, a 9-year-old cat name ...
Automotive & Mobility
Jeffrey Lucas, a longtime friend of KitKat, said the "funniest thing" he ever did with KitKat was "teach him Ukrainian." He taught the bodega cat two simple commands: De kit (Where's the cat?) and Kit tam (Cat's over there). Lucas recalled ...
Government
SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China's authoritarian government bans use of Meta ...
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is under scrutiny after leaked internal documents revealed that it expected a significant portion of its 2024 revenue to come from ads linked to scams, fraud and banned products. Th ...
Customer Service
Adam Raine's life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework last fall. Their exchanges grew more consuming as the 16-year-old opened up to the chatbot about his suicidal thoughts, according to data anal ...
Media & Journalism
Images and videos of Eric Langford have been shared online---but multiple people have said in the comments that they suspect these are all AI-generated. Newsweek has broken down whether the story is true or not. The Claim Langford vanish ...
Government
A 14-year-old boy mysteriously vanished without a trace from a Boy Scout camp, never to be seen again - his family devastated. Three weeks later, the teen, Eric Langford, was declared dead after baffled police failed to find any leads desp ...
Government
Months before it mysteriously vaporized into thin air, Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency ravaged the National Weather Service, leading to severe staffing shortages. While the Trump administration promised to rehire ...
The National Weather Service's weekend wind forecast for rural Idaho looked normal. Some mild gusts and a caption reminding folks to "hold onto your hats." And then some eagle-eyed observers took a look at the towns on the map and wondered ...
Legal Services
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust introduced a new rule this year stating that any book submitted for the Ockham awards must not contain AI material of any kind. "Don't judge a book by its cover" goes the famous idiom, one which may be tou ...
The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs. Stephanie Johnson’s collec ...
Two of New Zealand's best-known writers have been disqualified from consideration for the country's premier literary prize after organisers discovered their book jackets used images generated with artificial intelligence. Stephanie Johnson ...
Media & Journalism
Elizabeth Smither and Stephanie Johnson's latest books, both published by Quentin Wilson Publishing, have been yeeted from the Ockhams. Author Stephanie Johnson had no idea that the image of a cat with human teeth on the cover of her book ...
Legal Services
In its judgment of 11 November 2025 (42 O 14139/24), the Munich I Regional Court (Germany) issued a widely noted precedent on the copyright assessment of AI training and outputs under German and EU law. According to its press release1, the ...
Legal Services
OpenAI has been ordered to pay damages after a court in Germany ruled that its chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws. The Munich regional court ruled in favour of the German music performance rights organization GEMA which manages ...
Customer Service
Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don't talk back in a child's imagination --- some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that's a problem, though:A scarf-wearing teddy be ...
As a writer who covers baby and kids gear, I'm inundated with emails about the hottest new toys: a box that automatically prints pictures based on kids' commands. A robot with facial recognition capabilities. A teddy bear that can craft end ...
Customer Service
A wave of AI-powered children's toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids. Children have been conversing with stuffies ...
Government
Amid a flood of toys boasting AI features this holiday season, a consumer advocacy group warns that more must be done to ensure the gadgets are safe for children. Public Interest Research Group, which pushes for corporations and government ...
More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes in one of the nation's largest phishing campaigns in years, with the sophisticated attacks specifically targeting the country ...