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Police in Philadelphia say one of Anthropic's AI models invented a fake tip in a real murder case. The Philadelphia Police Department says the "false homicide tip" was submitted to PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18, NBC News reports. The AI model filled out an online form, claiming that it "may have information regarding this case" and that it recalled "seeing someone matching the description" near the crime scene.

Israel appears to have stepped up enforcement of its flight regulations after the FlyDubai cockpit attack. An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane bound for Tel Aviv was forced to turn around on Monday because one of the pilots was from Indonesia, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, the Telegraph reports. Israeli regulations ban pilots from countries that don't have diplomatic relations with Israel from flying to the country.

An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week after the ChatGPT maker discovered an audio recording device hidden in the conference room, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco.

Girls Is Returning to HBO for Five New Episodes A decade after signing off, Girls is getting a midlife check-in. HBO says creator Lena Dunham will revive the series for five new episodes, with stars Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells all returning. Production is slated to begin in 2027, 10 years after the original finale, People reports. "We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell.

The US Treasury Department said Tuesday that it's imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America's second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department's history, the AP reports. Regulators said the bank failed for years to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, reports CNBC.

The Supreme Court has shut down a bid by one of Kari Lake's lawyers to escape six-figure sanctions tied to her failed challenge of Arizona's voting machines. In an order Tuesday with no explanation, the justices let stand a lower-court ruling that upheld penalties against attorney Andrew Parker, who was fined over a 2022 lawsuit seeking to block electronic tabulators in Maricopa and Pima counties, the Hill reports.

Bumble is getting a major reset—and a new set of bosses—after agreeing to a $1.3 billion sale to investment firm Ithaca Holdings, which plans to take the company private. Ithaca directors Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will take over as co-CEOs of the dating app, which scrapped its signature women-initiate-chats rule in August. Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who launched Bumble in 2014, says she will stay "actively involved," though her exact role hasn't been detailed, the BBC reports.

If Kamala Harris is harboring plans for a 2028 presidential run, a new Politico analysis won't make for pleasant reading. The outlet speaks to about 20 Democratic donors and strategists who convey the distinct impression that Harris missed her moment to emerge as a top-tier candidate over the past year. "She totally blew it," says Doug Herman, a strategist for Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns.

The first big batch of summertime profit reports from US companies made waves on Wall Street after topping analysts' expectations, but many canceled each other out. That left stock indexes relatively static and near their records on Tuesday. The S&P 500 fell 1.79 points, or less than 0.1%, to 7,805.45 and is just slightly below its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 180.45 points, or 0.3%, to 51,670.10.

Pope Leo XIV's surgery confirmed that he has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed, the Vatican said Tuesday. Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative tests and was confirmed during surgery, the AP reports. The 71-year-old was in the operating room for about 3 hours, the statement said. The surgery itself lasted approximately 90 minutes.