Displaced families from southern Beirut are living in makeshift tents inside downtown Azarieh buildings. They face cramped conditions, constant fear from explosions and an uncertain future as the conflict widens. Hundreds of displaced Lebanese are sheltering in the Azarieh buildings in central Beirut after violence spread beyond traditional front lines. About 250 families now live in improvised tents in the commercial district, with a communal kitchen, water and aid distributions but little space, privacy or peace. Fatme A., who fled her home in Ouzai with her husband, mother and seven-year-old daughter, described life in a cloth shelter among stacked mattresses and other families. Her husband, a carpenter, helps repair tents and organize the makeshift camp. Nights are hardest, she says: the explosions are loud and children sleep fully dressed from fear. The escalation follows the wider conflict tied to Ira...
India’s top court has flagged a judgment that relied on AI-generated, non-existent case law as misconduct, raising fresh alarms about the use of chatbots and legal AI amid a massive court backlog and risks of bias. India's Supreme Court has called a lower-court ruling that cited four non-existent precedents—later found to be generated by an AI tool—more than a simple error, labeling it "misconduct" and issuing notices to the attorney general, solicitor general and the Bar Council of India. The problem surfaced on appeal in a land dispute from Andhra Pradesh. The fabricated citations were believable enough to shape a judgment before they were exposed, underscoring how easily large language models can invent authoritative-sounding legal material. The episode is part of a wider trend: judges and lawyers around the world are experimenting with AI to cope with huge caseloads, but the technology can...