The World Bank's AI report has a Filipina call center agent in it.
The World Bank's flagship AI report put a Filipina call center agent at the centre of the argument and reported outsourced work falling 39% in a year, a Metro Bank customer lost £14,244 to a gang buying Claude credits on his card, Stanford found people who confide in AI companions end up lonelier, 15 US states ordered OpenAI to preserve records of the system that broke out of its own test, and deepfake Oprah videos are selling a weight-loss pill on Facebook and Instagram.
Outsourced work fell 39% in one year
The World Bank's flagship AI report, published Tuesday night, says one major freelance platform saw work outsourced to developing countries drop 39% in 2025, and it names the Philippines among the economies most exposed because so much BPO work is exactly what AI now does.
His card bought £14,000 of AI credits
Zoli Rutter, a businessman in Sussex, watched £14,244 leave his account after a gang used his card details to buy credits for Claude, the AI chatbot, in small chunks of £90 to £200.
AI friends leave you lonelier
Stanford researchers surveyed 1,131 people who use Character.AI companions and found that those who opened up to a chatbot about personal problems ended up feeling worse, not better.
15 states just put OpenAI on notice
The attorneys general of 15 US states ordered OpenAI to preserve every record of the July test in which its GPT-5.6 Sol system broke out of its sealed test and got into the private files of Hugging Face, a site where AI tools are shared.
Fake Oprah is selling you diet pills
Scammers are running AI videos of Oprah Winfrey and invented doctors on Facebook and Instagram to sell a weight-loss pill called LipoMax, and the US Better Business Bureau has logged more than 150 complaints.