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...
NASA's Artemis II crew fired a translunar injection burn, leaving Earth and setting course for a 10-day lunar flyby — the first crewed trip past the moon in more than half a century. NASA's Artemis II astronauts fired their main engine Thursday and left Earth's orbit, putting the Orion capsule on course for a lunar flyby. Mission control in Houston confirmed it was a "good burn," sending the four-person crew toward the moon. The burn came about 25 hours after the Space Launch System rocket launched the Orion capsule from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen told mission control he and his crewmates were riveted to the windows, describing a "beautiful view of the dark side of the Earth lit by the moon." With the translunar injection complete, Orion will now coast largely under orbital mechanics for the remainder of the flight. The crew spent their ...