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Held back, pending better evidence (25)

Possible cases that don't meet the standard yet, usually because only one qualifying source exists so far. Each one is re-checked daily and stays on this list until it's published or ruled out.

• Ford BlueCruise crash, San Antonio, Texas, February 2024 (1 death). Carried forward unchanged. Nothing located establishes that the relevant behaviour of BlueCruise in this crash was learned from data, so the site's machine-learning definition is still unmet. Not re-searched today; the vehicle budget went to the Vallejo crash and the Electrek-only Tesla items. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Ford BlueCruise crash, Philadelphia, March 2024 (2 deaths). Carried forward unchanged. The NTSB probable cause names driver impairment, distraction, excess speed in a work zone and Ford's inadequate integration of its active speed management system rather than a detection failure by the automation, and the machine-learning question for BlueCruise is still unresolved. Not re-searched today. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Luca Cella Walker, 16, Hampshire, England (inquest, March 2026). Re-searched today. Results are again Patient Safety Learning's hub, an X post, Balkanweb, an AOL republication and a Pulitzer Center essay. No accepted publisher has reported the inquest and no coroner's document could be found on an official host. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Christian Faith Madison, 29, Alabama (lawsuit against OpenAI, 2026). Re-searched today. Coverage remains abc3340 (accepted, opened in an earlier scan) plus wvtm13, cbs42, Futurism and Yahoo republications. That is still one accepted publisher, one short of the two-publisher threshold, and no copy of the complaint could be found on an approved primary host. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Xiaomi SU7 crash in NOA assisted-driving mode, Tongling, China, March 2025 (3 deaths). Re-checked in today's Chinese-language sweep, which returned only 2026 items about the Ruijin expressway investigation report and the comma.ai investigation. No conclusion by the Tongling investigation team and no accepted publisher attributing those deaths to the assisted-driving system has appeared. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• NIO ES8 on Navigate on Pilot, Putian, China, August 2021 (1 death). Carried forward unchanged. Previous sweeps returned only the AIAAIC repository entry, autoevolution, kr-asia and InsideEVs, none accepted; none attributes the death to Navigate on Pilot, and no official conclusion or court decision has been reported. Today's Chinese-language sweep did not surface it. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Readfield, Maine killing, February 2025 (1 death). Carried forward unchanged. Coverage remains the October 2025 Central Maine and Bangor Daily News reports that the defendant was found not criminally responsible, with testimony that heavy ChatGPT use was one factor in his delusions. No lawsuit or official complaint alleges that the system's own responses helped or encouraged the killing, so the site's policy on human perpetrators still applies. Not re-searched today. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, New Jersey, March 2025 (Meta 'Big sis Billie' chatbot). Re-searched today. Reuters remains the only accepted independent report of the death; today's other results are the AI incident-database entry, a Medium post, the-decoder and the New Jersey attorney-general coalition letter, which cites the death in support of demands about chatbot design rather than constituting a complaint about this death. No lawsuit or official complaint about this death was found. (since 11 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla driver-assist 'Verified Engaged' when a Model 3 stopped in a live lane of Interstate 4, Florida, 6 October 2025 (1 death), and on Loop 202 in Mesa, Arizona, 31 October 2025 (1 death). Carried forward. Electrek's 31 August 2026 reporting remains the only accepted first-hand coverage and no accepted pick-up has appeared; no lawsuit, police finding or federal investigation alleges that the driver-assist system caused or contributed to either death. Not re-searched today. (since 12 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla driver-assist engaged when a Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, on 6 July 2025, killing Stephen Field, 82. Re-searched today. Electrek's 7 September 2026 article is still the only accepted publisher; the other results are Hoodline, NewsBreak and law-firm marketing pages. No party alleges fault by the driver-assist system. (since 12 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla's driver-assist system was 'Verified Engaged' when a Model X struck and killed motorcyclist Leonidas Davis, 55, in Moraine, Ohio, on 23 July 2025. Carried forward. Electrek (3 September 2026) remains the only accepted publisher, the narrative and software fields of Tesla's NHTSA filing are redacted, and no police finding, lawsuit or federal investigation attributes the death to the system. Not re-searched today. (since 13 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla's driver-assist system was 'Verified Engaged' when a Model 3 crashed at 104 mph in Clute, Texas, in May 2026, killing the driver. Carried forward. Electrek's 31 August 2026 article remains the only accepted first-hand source, key fields of Tesla's NHTSA filing are redacted, and no body attributes the death to the system. Not re-searched today. (since 13 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• An AI triage system contributed to the death of a woman who waited for an ICU bed in Brazil in June 2026. Re-checked in today's medical sweep, which covered clinical AI and algorithmic denial of care and produced no further coverage of this case. Gizmodo's 15 June 2026 piece remains the only accepted source located, and it is still not established that the triage platform's relevant behaviour is machine-learned. (since 13 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla Autopilot lawsuit filed over the death of William A. Hensley (2016 Model X, South Carolina), reported September 2026. Carried forward. Coverage of the filing remains CarComplaints.com, CarBuzz, law-firm marketing pages and aggregators; no accepted news organisation has covered it and no complaint or docket entry could be found on an approved primary host. Not re-searched today. (since 16 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Two women, aged 18 and 20, died by suicide in Surat, Gujarat, India, in March 2026 after using ChatGPT. Re-searched today. Results are DailyHunt, Voice of Sikkim and similar aggregators, none accepted, and the accounts describe police recording a query on a phone rather than any official body or complaint blaming the system. (since 18 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Pentagon review reportedly found that overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI contributed to the US strike on a school in Minab, Iran (Bloomberg investigation, September 2026). Re-checked today, with some progress. Gizmodo's 20 September 2026 report of Bloomberg's investigation was opened for the first time: it says officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review described a cascade of preventable failures that included overreliance on the AI inside Palantir's Maven Smart System, and it carries Palantir's response that the company is not responsible for the underlying data and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Military Times' 24 March 2026 piece was also opened, but it does not itself attribute the deaths to Maven: it reports former officials telling Semafor that humans, not AI, are to blame, and a Ukrainian drone operator saying the pattern suggests a targeting-data failure rather than an AI malfunction. Bloomberg, the Washington Post (11 March 2026) and NPR (26 March 2026) were all refused on fetch again, so the only opened accepted source blaming the system is a write-up of Bloomberg's work. The Pentagon says the incident remains under investigation, the review is unpublished, and Palantir's chief technology officer has publicly disputed Maven's role. Held pending an accepted publisher's own reporting that can be opened, or publication of the review. (since 21 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Electrek's 15 September 2026 report that Tesla's data shows Autopilot or Full Self-Driving was 'Verified Engaged' in four fatal July 2026 crashes (Upper Marlboro, Maryland, 12 July, 3 deaths; San Mateo, California, 15 July, 1 death; Ashby, Minnesota, 20 July, 2 deaths; Ione, California, 22 July, 1 death). Carried forward. No accepted publisher has followed Electrek on any of the four crashes, Tesla redacted the narrative, software version and operating-domain fields in each filing, and no lawsuit, police finding or federal investigation attributes any of these deaths to the system. Not re-searched today. (since 26 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Electrek's 1 September 2026 report that Tesla's data shows driver-assist was 'Verified Engaged' when a Model Y turning left killed passenger Maggie Espinosa, 37, in Batavia, Illinois, on 25 March 2026. Re-searched today. Electrek's 1 September 2026 article is still the only accepted coverage; today's other results are a Yahoo republication, thecooldown and Shaw Local's original crash report, which makes no driver-assist allegation. No body attributes the death to the system. (since 27 September 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Electrek reports that Tesla's data shows driver-assist was 'Verified Engaged' in a fatal road departure near Vinemont, Alabama that killed Kayleigh Page, 29 (reported 9 September 2026), and in an Interstate 35 crash near Pattonsburg, Missouri that killed the driver (reported 10 September 2026). Carried forward. No accepted coverage beyond Electrek has been located for either crash, and no lawsuit, police finding or federal investigation attributes either death to the system. Not re-searched today. (since 3 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi, 20, killed in a US airstrike in Iraq on 2-3 February 2024 that an Airwars/Independent investigation links to AI-assisted targeting (Project Maven). Carried forward. Airwars is not an accepted publisher, the partner articles on independent.co.uk remain unopenable, and Airwars itself quotes a CENTCOM spokesperson saying the military has no way of knowing whether AI was used in specific strikes, so no body attributes the death to the system. Today's military budget went to the Minab claim. (since 14 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• New: Alexander Taylor, 35, Florida: father says ChatGPT contributed to his death. Carried forward unchanged. The missing piece is still a second accepted publisher naming ChatGPT that can actually be opened; the New York Times feature of 13 June 2025 has been refused on every fetch attempt. The safe-messaging, diagnosis-accuracy and unsupported-absence problems identified in the 11 October rejection would also have to be resolved before any resubmission. Not re-searched today. (since 15 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Electrek's 15 October 2026 report that Tesla's data shows driver-assist was 'Verified Engaged' when a Tesla crossed the Route 55 median in Vineland, New Jersey, on 22 August 2026 and killed Phillip Eastman, 68. Re-checked today. Electrek is still the only accepted publisher; today's pick-ups are Yahoo, KuCoin and thedeepdive, none accepted. No lawsuit, police finding or federal investigation attributes the death to the system. (since 16 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• New: Mathias Habib, 15, Lebanon: parents allege in a 14 October 2026 San Francisco suit that ChatGPT contributed to his suicide. Re-checked today. Tech Policy Press (18 October 2026) remains the only accepted publisher listing Habib v. OpenAI as filed in San Francisco Superior Court on 14 October 2026, and its copy of the complaint is hosted on cdn.sanity.io, which is not an approved primary host. Today's further results are LBC Group, Lovin Beirut, Al Bawaba, rafidayn24 and IT-Online, none accepted. A filed lawsuit would meet the alleged tier, so this stays deferred pending a second qualifying publisher or a copy of the complaint on an approved primary host. (since 18 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode struck and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian crossing Interstate 80 in Vallejo, California, on 22 October 2026 (CHP). Re-checked today, with the sourcing problem partly solved but a substantive one now visible. CBS News Bay Area's report of 22 October 2026 was opened in full: it says the Tesla driver told the California Highway Patrol the vehicle was in Full Self-Driving mode, but also that a preliminary CHP review of the driver's dash-cam video showed the pedestrian entering the freeway from the right shoulder and stepping into the car's path, that the car braked and steered left to try to avoid him, and that he appeared to be struck by at least one additional vehicle, none of which stopped. The San Francisco Chronicle report was again refused on fetch (url_not_allowed) and The Verge's report has still not been returned by any search, so it cannot be opened. On the only accepted account that can be read, no body blames the driver-assist system: the CHP investigation is open but attributes nothing to the software, and no lawsuit or federal investigation has been reported. Held pending either further accepted coverage that can be opened or an allegation or finding attributing the death to the system. (since 23 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)
• A 24-year-old worker was reportedly killed by a large robot during a night shift, reported in New Zealand Chinese-language media on 23 October 2026. Re-searched today in English and Chinese. No accepted publisher has reported a robot-caused worker death in New Zealand this month; the results are RNZ and Stuff items about unrelated workplace deaths, including a WorkSafe prosecution of a Dunedin automation firm earlier in 2026 and a workplace death near Balclutha in mid-October, none of which mentions a machine-learning system. Industrial robots are excluded as conventional automation unless the relevant behaviour was learned from data, and nothing located indicates that here. (since 24 October 2026, last checked 25 October 2026)

25 October 2026

Scan of 25 October 2026. No new case met the bar and no development moved an existing case between tiers, so there are no proposals today. The main work went to held-back items. The Vallejo, California crash of 22 October now has one accepted publisher that could be opened (CBS News Bay Area), but the CHP account it reports attributes no fault to Tesla's software — it says the car braked and steered to avoid the pedestrian, who stepped into its path, and that he was then struck by at least one further vehicle — so the case still does not reach the alleged tier. The Minab (Iran) school-strike claim advanced slightly: the Gizmodo report of Bloomberg's investigation was opened for the first time, and a Military Times piece alongside it, but Military Times does not itself attribute the deaths to the Maven system and reports former officials blaming humans rather than AI, while Bloomberg, the Washington Post and NPR remain unopenable and the Pentagon review is unpublished. Re-searches of the Habib, Madison, Walker, Wongbandue, Surat and Electrek-only Tesla items produced no new accepted publisher. New-death sweeps in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Arabic, across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, surfaced nothing identifying a new decedent attributed to a machine-learning system. Open-case checks (Benavides appeal, comma.ai PE26007, Lokken/UnitedHealth, the JCCP ChatGPT cases, Tumbler Ridge, Gavalas, Nissen, Embry, Peralta) found no verdict, judgment, dismissal or inquest conclusion to record.</summary> <parameter name="proposals">[] No changes met the standard.

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24 October 2026

Scan of 24 October 2026. The new-death sweep across all four categories, including searches in French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic, produced no case that can be recorded. The only fresh fatality with an AI allegation is the 22 October Vallejo (California) Tesla Full Self-Driving pedestrian death, where the two accepted publishers located (The Verge and the San Francisco Chronicle) again could not be opened, so nothing citable exists yet. Open-case checks (Raine/JCCP 5431, Lokken v. UnitedHealth, the Benavides Eleventh Circuit appeal, Tumbler Ridge, Gavalas v. Google, Embry, Nissen, comma.ai PE26007, NHTSA EA26002) returned no verdict, judgment, inquest conclusion, dismissal or published investigation report. All 24 held-back items were reviewed and eight were re-searched in full; none has acquired the missing evidence. One new lead, a worker reportedly killed by a large robot in New Zealand, is deferred pending verification of what machine was involved. Proposals: none. No changes met the standard.

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23 October 2026

Scan of 23 October 2026. No proposals. The main new item is the 22 October fatal crash on Interstate 80 in Vallejo, California, in which the California Highway Patrol says a Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving mode struck and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian; two accepted publishers (The Verge and the San Francisco Chronicle) appear to have covered it, but both pages were refused on fetch today, so under the rule that only pages actually opened may be cited it is deferred rather than proposed. Sweeps of the chatbot, vehicle, military and medical categories in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Chinese produced no other new qualifying death. Checks of the open cases (Raine and the JCCP 5431 coordinated proceeding, the comma.ai openpilot NHTSA evaluation, the Martha Avila NTSB investigation, Lokken/Martin v. UnitedHealth, the Tumbler Ridge suits, Nissen, Embry, the Benavides appeal and the Florida AG actions) found procedural activity only and no finding by any body. The Tech Policy Press round-up of the 13-14 October OpenAI filings was re-opened and identifies no decedent beyond Mathias Habib, who is already deferred. Held-back items were re-checked; none has gained the missing evidence. No changes met the standard.

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22 October 2026

Scan of 22 October 2026. About forty searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew and Arabic, plus checks on the open cases in the dataset (Benavides appeal, the JCCP 5431 ChatGPT proceeding, Lokken/UnitedHealth, the Nissen, Embry and Avila Tesla suits, the NTSB HWY26FH014 investigation and NHTSA PE26007 into comma.ai). No claim met the bar today, so there are no proposals. The only genuinely new fatality surfaced was a vehicle fire in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, where the manufacturer says the car was under manual control; it is rejected. All 23 held-back items were re-checked and are carried forward as deferred. The two closest to the bar — Mathias Habib and Christian Faith Madison — each still rest on a single accepted publisher; the Habib complaint PDF is hosted on Tech Policy Press's own CDN rather than an approved primary host. No verdict, inquest conclusion, regulator finding or published investigation report moving any existing case to confirmed was found.</summary> <parameter name="proposals">[] No changes met the standard.

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21 October 2026

One new proposal. The Zaporizhzhia drone case, held back since 11 September for want of a second accepted publisher, now has one: Al Jazeera's 14 September 2026 report names the civilians killed at a Zaporizhzhia petrol station on 6 July 2026 and, citing a New York Times analysis and Ukrainian examination of the wreckage, attributes the strike to a fully autonomous AI-guided Russian drone; Gizmodo reports the same findings. Proposed as alleged — no official body has made any finding. Nothing else met the bar: today's sweeps across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical cases in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean produced no other death newly attributed to an AI system, and no open case produced a verdict, inquest conclusion, published investigation report or appeal decision. The other 23 held-back items remain deferred, mostly for want of a second accepted publisher or of a primary document. No changes met the standard.

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20 October 2026

Scanned 2026-10-20 across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German and Arabic. No new death and no development in an existing case met the bar today, so no proposals. The main live question remains the Lebanese teenager Mathias Habib case: Tech Policy Press is still the only accepted publisher reporting the 14 October San Francisco filing, and no copy of the complaint could be found on an approved primary host, so it stays deferred. Bloomberg's Minab/Maven investigation remains unopenable (fetch refused again today). Open cases re-checked (Raine/JCCP 5431, Tumbler Ridge, FSU and the Florida AG probe, Lokken/nH Predict, Benavides 11th Circuit appeal, comma.ai PE26007, Avila/NTSB HWY26FH014, Nissen, Embry, Gaza targeting) show no verdict, finding, inquest conclusion or published investigation report since the last scan. The eight state attorney-general suits of 14 October and the Character.AI bankruptcy proceedings continue to generate coverage but identify no new decedent and are not findings of fault. No changes met the standard.

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19 October 2026

Daily scan, 19 October 2026. Searched for new AI-attributed deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical categories in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic-language results, and checked the open cases for verdicts, judgments, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions or published investigation findings. Nothing new meets either tier and no development moves an existing case, so there are no proposals today. The main activity in the period — the eight state attorneys-general suits against OpenAI, Character.AI's Chapter 11 and the multistate consumer-protection filings in it, the finalised Setzer settlement, the Ninth Circuit ruling on Tesla self-driving class actions, and NHTSA's open comma.ai evaluation — either involves no decedent, is already recorded, or is not a finding of fault. One held-back item was resolved against inclusion: the Law360 Florida venue ruling was traced to a September 2021 Coral Gables crash in which the alleged defects are the vehicle's suspension and chassis, with no driver-assist system alleged by any party. The remaining 24 held-back items are carried forward with today's reasons. No changes met the standard.

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18 October 2026

Scanned chatbot, vehicle, military and medical claims in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish and French for deaths reported in roughly the last ten days, and re-checked the existing cases and the 25 held-back items. One proposal today: a legal-status update recording that the settlement in Garcia v. Character Technologies, over the death of Sewell Setzer III, was formally finalised in the week to 16 October 2026 with terms undisclosed (tier unchanged; a settlement is not a finding of fault). A genuinely new death surfaced — Mathias Habib, 15, of Lebanon, the subject of a wrongful-death suit filed against OpenAI in San Francisco on 14 October 2026 — but only one accepted publisher (Tech Policy Press) has reported it and the complaint is hosted only on Google Drive, so it is deferred. No confirmed-tier development (verdict, inquest conclusion, regulator or safety-board finding) was located in any category. 1 change published.

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Published

• sewell-setzer-character-ai: Record that the settlement of Megan Garcia's wrongful-death suit over the death of Sewell Setzer III was formally finalised in the week to 16 October 2026 with terms not disclosed, per WKMG/ClickOrlando, and add that report as a source. Tier unchanged (alleged): a settlement is not a finding of fault.

17 October 2026

Scanned for new AI-linked deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, and checked the open cases. No new case met the bar today. One development: WKMG/ClickOrlando reported on 16 October 2026 that Megan Garcia's settlement with Character.AI over the death of Sewell Setzer III has been formally finalised, with terms undisclosed — proposed as a legal-status update only; a settlement is not a finding of fault. All 23 held-back items were re-checked and remain deferred, and one new item (a Law360 report on a Florida Tesla fatal-crash suit) is deferred pending an openable source. No changes met the standard.

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16 October 2026

Scanned for new AI-linked deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese, and checked the open cases for verdicts, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigation reports. Nothing met the bar today, so no proposals. The week's main AI-death news (eight state attorneys general suing OpenAI on 14 October; Character.AI's Chapter 11 filing) identifies no new decedent and contains no finding of fault, and both were already assessed. One new candidate was found and deferred: Electrek's 15 October report that Tesla's federal filing marks driver-assist 'Verified Engaged' in the crash that killed Phillip Eastman, 68, in Vineland, New Jersey. All 22 held-back items were re-checked; none has moved. No changes met the standard.

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15 October 2026

Daily scan, 15 October 2026. No new case met the bar and no development moved an existing case between tiers, so no proposals. The main new story of the day — coordinated lawsuits filed on 14 October 2026 against OpenAI by the attorneys general of eight states — identifies no decedent beyond deaths already recorded and is not a finding by any body. Broad searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical categories (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic phrasings) turned up nothing else; open cases (Benavides appeal, the JCCP ChatGPT cases, Lokken/nH Predict, Tumbler Ridge, the Gemini suit, Martha Avila's NTSB investigation, the comma.ai NHTSA evaluation) show no new rulings or reports. All 21 held-back items were re-checked; none has gained the missing evidence, though the Zaporizhzhia "Molniya" drone claim has a possible second accepted publisher — an AFP report carried by CTV News and RNZ — whose text could not be extracted today. No changes met the standard.

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14 October 2026

Scanned for new AI-linked deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and checked the open cases on the site. No new case met the bar. One update is proposed: Character.ai's Chapter 11 filing, added to the Sewell Setzer record with the date corrected to Monday 12 October 2026 after yesterday's version was rejected for giving 13 October. The Acton, Massachusetts murder case moves from deferred to rejected after the Boston Globe's 6 October report was opened: the prosecution's allegation concerns the defendant's own use of ChatGPT, and no lawsuit or official complaint alleges the system's responses helped or encouraged the killings. One new item is deferred: the Airwars/Independent investigation into the death of Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi in a February 2024 US strike said to have been AI-assisted. The remaining 20 held-back items were re-checked; none has gained a second accepted publisher or an official finding. 1 change published.

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Published

• sewell-setzer-character-ai: Record Character.ai's announcement on Monday 12 October 2026 that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, and add the CBS News report as a source. Tier unchanged (alleged): a bankruptcy filing is not a finding of fault. This corrects and resubmits yesterday's proposal, which was rejected for dating the filing 13 October.

13 October 2026

Daily scan, 13 October 2026. No new AI-linked death met the bar today: searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical AI in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese surfaced no death reported in roughly the last ten days in which a specific AI system is blamed by a lawsuit, an official complaint, an open official investigation or two accepted publishers. Two update proposals: Character Technologies (Character.AI) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 13 October 2026, which is material to the settled Setzer record; and NHTSA's PE26007 resume plus Electrek's report establish the published scope of the open comma.ai openpilot investigation (five crashes, two of them fatal, three deaths in total), which should not be confused with the two deaths recorded here. One held-back item is rejected today (Prestatyn, Wales): the CPS press release on the sentencing, opened today, makes no mention of any AI system, and no lawsuit or official complaint alleges the chatbot's own responses helped or encouraged the killing. The remaining 20 held-back items are carried forward, plus one new deferred item (Acton, Massachusetts). 1 change published.

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Published

• ascension-parish-comma-ai-openpilot: Add the published scope of NHTSA's open comma.ai investigation to the legal-status field (five reported crashes, two of them fatal, three deaths in total, with the other fatal crash not identified in the released data), so the two deaths recorded here are not confused with the investigation's total. Tier unchanged (alleged); the investigation has still made no finding.

12 October 2026

One new case proposed: Martha Avila Mantilla, 76, killed when a Tesla Model 3 under Full Self-Driving (Supervised) left a residential street in Katy, Texas on 19 June 2026 — alleged tier, resting on the family's filed wrongful-death suit, with the NTSB's open investigation and Tesla's rebuttal recorded. No developments found in the 32 existing cases (checked the OpenAI and Character.AI litigation, the Tumbler Ridge suits, the Tesla cases, UnitedHealth/nH Predict, the comma.ai probe and Gaza targeting); the comma.ai PE26007 opening resume was re-read on nhtsa.gov and does not change the Ascension Parish record. One Chinese official accident report (Ruijin, Jiangxi) was opened and rejected. All 20 held-back items re-checked and carried forward, plus one new deferred item. 1 change published.

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Published

• martha-avila-tesla-fsd: Added. New alleged vehicles case: Martha Avila Mantilla, 76, Katy, Texas (19 June 2026). The family's wrongful-death suit blames the design of Tesla's Autopilot/Full Self-Driving; the NTSB investigation is open and Tesla says vehicle data shows the driver overrode the system.

11 October 2026

Scanned for new deaths across all four categories in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hebrew; checked the open cases for verdicts, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigation reports; and re-checked all 21 held-back items. One proposal: the Alexander Taylor case (Port St. Lucie, Florida, April 2025) now clears the two-publisher bar for the alleged tier, because the Rolling Stone feature could be opened today alongside WPTV's interview with his father. No case moved to confirmed and no new finding by any official body was located. The remaining 20 held-back items stay deferred, mostly for unchanged reasons: a single accepted publisher, an unresolved machine-learning question, or reporting that a system was engaged without anyone alleging it contributed to the death. No changes met the standard.

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10 October 2026

Scan of 2026-10-10. New-death sweeps (English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese) across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical surfaced no death meeting the bar. The main new item of the period — Kentucky's unredacted filing against Character.AI (Reuters, 8 October) — alleges self-harm encouragement but identifies no death, so it is rejected. Two robotaxi-involved fatalities surfaced via NHTSA reporting (Dallas, Texas; Tempe, Arizona) but in each the reporting describes the autonomous vehicle as slowing or stationary and struck by or after another vehicle, with no party alleging the AV contributed. Development checks on open cases (Raine/JCCP 5431, Benavides appeal, Tumbler Ridge, comma.ai PE26007, Tesla EA26002, Lokken/UnitedHealth, Character.AI settlements, Florida AG) produced no verdict, judgment, inquest conclusion or published official finding that changes any record; the Mendoza settlement already recorded was re-confirmed from the Electrek report. Substantive progress on one held-back item: the full NTSB final report HIR-26-02 on the two fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes was downloaded and read. It confirms verbatim that the inability of the Ford partial automation system to detect and respond to the stationary vehicle contributed to the San Antonio crash — but the 128-page report contains no mention of machine learning, neural networks or artificial intelligence anywhere, so the site's machine-learning definition is still not shown to be met and the item stays deferred. All 21 held-back items re-checked; none cleared the two-publisher or official-finding threshold. No proposals. No changes met the standard.

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3 October 2026

Scanned for new AI-attributed deaths (chatbots, vehicles, military, medical) reported in roughly the last ten days, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic; checked the open cases for verdicts, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigation reports; and re-checked all 21 held-back items. No new death met the bar and no official body made a new finding. One update is proposed: Law360 reports that OpenAI is asking a Florida federal court to throw out a suit over the Florida State University shooting, which refines the legal status of an existing alleged-tier record. The held-back "UnitedHealth 90% error rate" claim is rejected as recycled coverage of the lawsuit already recorded; twenty held-back items are carried forward as deferred, and two further Electrek-only Tesla "Verified Engaged" reports (Vinemont, Alabama and Pattonsburg, Missouri) are added as a new deferred item. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 21 held back · 2 rejected · 75 searches · claude-opus-5

29 September 2026

Scan of 29 September 2026. Searched all four categories in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Korean for deaths reported in roughly the last ten days, and re-checked the open cases plus all 20 held-back items. Nothing new meets the bar: no official body made a finding attributing a death to an AI system, and no newly reported death cleared the two-accepted-publisher or filed-claim threshold. Proposals: none. A Chinese-language report that a judge had found a fatal crash was "not the fault of self-driving" was opened and turned out to be a 2023 piece on the Riverside County (Micah Lee) jury verdict, already excluded by policy. Florida's attorney general filed a motion for a temporary injunction against OpenAI on 28 September 2026 (Axios, opened); it is a pending motion about minors' access and model development, not a finding, and concerns no death not already recorded. All 20 held-back items remain deferred; the Bloomberg pages on the Minab/Maven review, the Rolling Stone feature on Alexander Taylor and al.com's report on Christian Faith Madison again could not be opened, which is what keeps those three below the sourcing bar. One new item is deferred for checking (a mid-September report of a UnitedHealth AI denial lawsuit, so far only on non-accepted hosts). No changes met the standard.

0 published · 21 held back · 2 rejected · 75 searches · claude-opus-5

28 September 2026

Scan of 28 September 2026. Broad sweeps across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, produced no death meeting the site's bar. No verdict, inquest conclusion, published investigation report, dismissal or appeal decision was found in any of the 32 existing cases; the only movement located (the B.C. government's suit over Tumbler Ridge, Tesla's Contra Costa settlement, NHTSA's comma.ai probe PE26007) is already recorded. All 19 held-back items were re-checked and remain deferred: no additional accepted publisher, primary document or official finding has appeared for any of them. One new item is deferred: the April 2025 death of Alexander Taylor, 35, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, whose father says chatbot conversations preceded his death — only one accepted publisher (WPTV) could be opened, and the reporting located is not consistent about which system is blamed. No proposals today. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 20 held back · 0 rejected · 70 searches · claude-opus-5

27 September 2026

No new record and no development in an existing case met the bar today. Broad sweeps across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical AI — in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Dutch and Italian — surfaced no death that is newly and credibly blamed on a specific AI system by a lawsuit, official complaint, open official investigation or two accepted independent news organisations. Checks of open cases (Raine/JCCP 5431, Benavides appeal, Tumbler Ridge, Florida AG, UnitedHealth nH Predict, comma.ai PE26007, NHTSA EA26002) found no verdict, judgment, dismissal, settlement, inquest conclusion or published investigation report since the last update. The most substantive work today was on the two held-back Ford BlueCruise crashes: I obtained and read the NTSB's final report HIR-26-02 (adopted 31 March 2026, 128 pages) in full. It confirms that the Board named the automation system's failure to detect the stationary vehicle as a contributing factor in the San Antonio crash, but a full-text search of the report returns no instance of "machine learning", "neural", "artificial intelligence", "deep learning", "training data" or "Mobileye", so the threshold question of whether the relevant BlueCruise behaviour was learned from data remains unresolved and both claims stay deferred. All 18 held-back items were re-checked; one new item (an Electrek-only Tesla driver-assist fatality in Batavia, Illinois) is added to the deferred list. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 19 held back · 0 rejected · 74 searches · claude-opus-5

26 September 2026

Scan of 26 September 2026. Searched for new AI-linked deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean; checked open cases for verdicts, judgments, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigations; and re-checked all 17 held-back items. Nothing met the bar, so there are no proposals. Notable non-events: Al Jazeera's 26 September explainer on the Canadian suits against OpenAI adds context but no facts beyond the Tumbler Ridge record updated on 22 September; the Zoox collision on the Las Vegas Strip on 25 September involved injuries only; no new development surfaced in any open Tesla, OpenAI, Character.AI, Google or UnitedHealth case. One new single-source claim (Electrek's 15 September data-matching article on four fatal July 2026 Tesla driver-assist crashes) is deferred. On the two Ford BlueCruise crashes, the NTSB investigation docket's Vehicle Automation Group Chair's Factual Report was obtained and read in full today: it describes object classification and names Mobileye as developer of the forward camera system, but contains no statement that the relevant behaviour is machine-learned, so the question blocking those two items remains unresolved. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 18 held back · 2 rejected · 66 searches · claude-opus-5

25 September 2026

One new case proposed: NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26007 on 21 September 2026 into comma.ai's openpilot driver-assistance software over five crashes into stopped in-lane vehicles, two of them fatal. The one fatal crash that has been publicly identified killed two rear-seat passengers in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in February 2026; proposed at the alleged tier on the strength of the open official investigation plus TechCrunch and Electrek. Checks of the 31 existing cases found no verdicts, inquest conclusions or published investigation reports; the British Columbia suit over Tumbler Ridge and the Mendoza settlement are already recorded. All 17 held-back items were reviewed; none has acquired the missing evidence. Sweeps in French, German, Spanish, Korean and Japanese produced nothing new. 1 change published.

1 published · 17 held back · 2 rejected · 60 searches · claude-opus-5

Published

• ascension-parish-comma-ai-openpilot: Added. New alleged-tier vehicles case: NHTSA opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26007 on 21 September 2026 into comma.ai's openpilot driver-assistance software over five crashes into stopped in-lane vehicles, two of them fatal; the one publicly identified fatal crash killed two rear-seat passengers in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in February 2026.

24 September 2026

Broad scan across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian, found no death meeting the bar today. No developments were found in the 31 open cases (searches on JCCP 5431, Raine, Benavides/Eleventh Circuit, Lokken/UnitedHealth, Setzer, Soelberg, Nissen, Embry and the B.C./OpenAI suit returned nothing newer than material already recorded). All 17 held-back items were re-checked or carried forward and are reported below; none has acquired the second accepted source or official finding it needs. Two claims examined today are rejected. No proposals. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 17 held back · 2 rejected · 73 searches · claude-opus-5

23 September 2026

Daily scan for 2026-09-23. Searched for new AI-attributed deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical, in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew and Arabic, and checked open cases for verdicts, judgments, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigation reports. No new death met the bar and no development in an existing case changed its tier or status: the ChatGPT JCCP 5431 case management conference was scheduled for today with no reported outcome, the Benavides appeal remains pending, the UnitedHealth nH Predict case remains in discovery, and the British Columbia suit over the Tumbler Ridge shooting is already recorded. Bloomberg published a further Minab/Maven article on 22 September 2026 but bloomberg.com could not be opened, so that case stays deferred. All 17 held-back items were reviewed; none can yet be verified to the standard required. No proposals today. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 17 held back · 2 rejected · 75 searches · claude-opus-5

22 September 2026

Scan of 22 September 2026. One development in an existing case: British Columbia filed its long-trailed lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman over the Tumbler Ridge shooting on 21 September 2026 in federal court in San Francisco (Al Jazeera, Engadget) — a legal-status update only; there is still no finding, so the case stays alleged. No new deaths met the bar. Searches in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical AI returned only cases already in the dataset, already rejected, or reported solely on non-accepted hosts. The Minab/Maven claim remains deferred: bloomberg.com is still un-openable and Gizmodo remains the only accepted, openable report attributing a role to the AI system. All 17 held-back items were re-checked; none cleared. 1 change published.

1 published · 17 held back · 0 rejected · 77 searches · claude-opus-5

Published

• tumbler-ridge-shooting-chatgpt: Records that the Province of British Columbia filed its own lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman on 21 September 2026 in federal court in San Francisco, and adds two accepted sources. Tier unchanged (alleged); no finding has been made.

21 September 2026

Scanned chatbot, vehicle, military and medical claims for deaths reported in roughly the last ten days, in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese, and re-checked every open case and all 16 held-back items. One proposal: a corrected record for Sophie Rottenberg, 29, Ithaca, New York, now supported by two accepted independent publishers (NPR, 18 August 2026, and Scripps News, 30 October 2025), rewritten to meet the safe-messaging rule, to attribute each allegation to the source that carries it, to correct who found the chat log, and to include OpenAI's response. No development was found in any existing case: no verdict, dismissal, settlement, inquest conclusion or published investigation report appeared this week. The Minab/Maven military claim is deferred again: the originating Bloomberg investigation still could not be opened, leaving Gizmodo as the only accepted page actually read. 1 change published.

1 published · 17 held back · 0 rejected · 65 searches · claude-opus-5

Published

• sophie-rottenberg-chatgpt: Added. New alleged-tier record: Sophie Rottenberg, 29, New York; her mother says ChatGPT, prompted as a therapist persona, answered clinical questions, never assessed her suicide risk and never got her to real-world help. Two accepted independent publishers (NPR, Scripps News); no lawsuit and no official finding. Rewritten from the version rejected on 17 September: no circumstance of the death is described, the RNZ headline is not used, the chat log is correctly attributed to her best friend's discovery, allegations are stated in the terms the mother actually used, and OpenAI's response and the chatbot's crisis-line referral are included.

20 September 2026

Scanned chatbot, vehicle, military and medical categories in English, Chinese, Portuguese, German, French, Spanish and Japanese, plus developments in the 30 open cases and all 17 held-back items. One proposal: a new alleged-tier record for the 28 February 2026 US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, after reporting on 19-20 September 2026 that officials involved in an unreleased Pentagon review described overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System as one of the failures behind the strike. No development was found that moves any existing case between tiers. Sixteen held-back items remain deferred; two claims examined today are rejected. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 16 held back · 3 rejected · 63 searches · claude-opus-5

19 September 2026

Scan of 19 September 2026. Searched for new deaths across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical in English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese; checked open cases (Raine/JCCP 5431, Tumbler Ridge, Florida AG investigation, Benavides appeal, Lokken/nH Predict, Character.AI settlements, NHTSA EA26002, Gaza targeting) and re-checked all 17 held-back items. Nothing new met the bar. Two claims were examined and rejected: an IIT Bombay student's death after an exam-cheating allegation involving ChatGPT, and the Dallas Waymo pedestrian fatality resurfacing in a Texas robotaxi crash-data round-up. The Minab school strike moved substantively - TIME's 18 September report on the UN fact-finding mission confirms members of Congress have asked whether AI targeting tools were used but that no publicly disclosed evidence establishes an AI model selected the target - so it stays deferred pending the Pentagon's unpublished command investigation. No proposals. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 17 held back · 2 rejected · 66 searches · claude-opus-5

18 September 2026

No new case met the bar today and no existing case moved tier. Broad searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical (English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese) surfaced no death reported in the last ~10 days in which a specific machine-learning system is blamed by a filed lawsuit, an official complaint or investigation, or two independent accepted publishers. Two developments were checked in depth. First, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran published its report today on the Minab school strike: downloaded and searched in full, it finds reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack and attributes the strike to reliance on outdated targeting data and a failure to verify the target, with no reference anywhere in the document to artificial intelligence, algorithms or machine learning. Second, the NTSB docket for the San Antonio BlueCruise crash was opened; it names Mobileye as developer of the forward camera system that "interpreted most of the optical data", which narrows but does not settle whether BlueCruise's relevant behaviour is machine-learned. The only fresh case development found was further coverage of Tesla's settlement of the Mendoza (fire-truck) Autopilot suit, already recorded. All 16 held-back items were re-checked and all remain deferred; two human-perpetrator chatbot claims are rejected under the site's policy, and one new chatbot lead (Surat, India) is deferred because the search budget ran out before accepted reporting could be opened. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 17 held back · 2 rejected · 75 searches · claude-opus-5

17 September 2026

Scan of 17 September 2026. No qualifying new death events were found in the last ten days across chatbots, vehicles, military or medical (searches in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). One proposal: the Sophie Rottenberg case, held back since 11 September for lack of a second accepted publisher, now has one — an RNZ interview with her mother alongside NPR's August 2026 report — so it is proposed as an alleged chatbot case. No developments were found that move any existing case between tiers: the Tumbler Ridge suits, the Florida AG investigation, the Benavides appeal, the UnitedHealth nH Predict discovery, the Character.AI settlements and the NHTSA Tesla FSD engineering analysis are all unchanged since the last scan. Sixteen held-back items remain deferred; two claims examined today are rejected. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 16 held back · 3 rejected · 67 searches · claude-opus-5

16 September 2026

Scan of 2026-09-16. Broad searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical AI (including French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese phrasings) surfaced no death meeting the site's bar today, and no verdict, inquest conclusion, published investigation report, dismissal or appeal decision in the 30 existing cases. One new item — a Tesla Autopilot wrongful-death suit reported this week over the death of William A. Hensley (2016 Model X, South Carolina) — is so far covered only by outlets not on the accepted list and no docket could be located, so it is deferred. All 16 held-back items were re-checked and remain deferred. No proposals. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 17 held back · 0 rejected · 67 searches · claude-opus-5

15 September 2026

Scan of 15 September 2026. Broad searches across chatbots, vehicles, military and medical AI in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Portuguese found no death that newly meets the bar, and no verdict, inquest conclusion, published investigation report, dismissal or appeal decision in any of the 30 existing cases. The only new items were: Electrek's 9 September report on a Model Y road departure in Vinemont, Alabama, which is the same Kayleigh Page death already rejected on 12 September; and an Al Jazeera feature of 14 September on Russian and Ukrainian battlefield AI, which adds original reporting on the Zaporizhzhia drone victims but still credits the New York Times for the autonomous-targeting determination. All 16 held-back items were re-checked and remain deferred. No proposals. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 16 held back · 2 rejected · 63 searches · claude-opus-5

14 September 2026

Scanned chatbots, vehicles, military and medical claims for deaths reported in roughly the last 10 days, in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hebrew, and checked open cases for verdicts, dismissals, settlements, inquest conclusions and published investigation reports. No new death met the bar today. The only proposal is an update to the Gaza AI-targeting entry to record the September 2026 'NAZA' documentary and the Israeli military's categorical rejection of its allegations (tier and death count unchanged). All 16 held-back items were re-checked and remain deferred; the two fresh Electrek data-matching pieces published this period (Vinemont, Alabama and Pattonsburg, Missouri) concern crashes already rejected on 12 September. 1 change published.

1 published · 16 held back · 0 rejected · 74 searches · claude-opus-5

Published

• gaza-ai-targeting: Records the 'NAZA' documentary (premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 10 September 2026), in which anonymous Israeli military and intelligence whistleblowers describe AI-assisted targeting, and the Israeli military's 11 September 2026 statement categorically rejecting its allegations and saying strike selection and approval were made by human personnel only. Tier, deaths and the absence of any official finding are unchanged.

13 September 2026

Scan of 13 September 2026. No new deaths from the last 10 days met the bar: the only fresh material is Electrek's continuing series matching fatal crashes to Tesla's redacted NHTSA Standing General Order filings (Moraine, Ohio; Clute, Texas; and Vinemont, Alabama — the last being the Kayleigh Page crash already rejected on 12 September), all single-publisher with no body attributing fault. Two held-back items were resolved by locating qualifying primary court records: the 2018 Tomei Expressway death of Yoshihiro Umeda (US district court order and Ninth Circuit memorandum, plus Newsweek) and the 2023 Idaho crash that killed four members of the Blaine/Leavitt family (federal docket on Justia, plus Electrek). Both are proposed as alleged-tier records. Checks on open cases (Benavides appeal, JCCP 5431, nH Predict discovery, Gavalas, Nissen, Tumbler Ridge, the Character.AI settlements, NHTSA EA26002, the Minab strike inquiry) found no new verdict, finding, dismissal or settlement. The Dallas Waymo claim is rejected after opening CBS News's account of that collision. 1 change published.

1 published · 16 held back · 3 rejected · 70 searches · claude-opus-5

Published

• yoshihiro-umeda-tesla-autopilot: Added. New alleged-tier vehicles record: Yoshihiro Umeda, 44, killed on the Tomei Expressway near Tokyo in April 2018 by a Tesla Model X that US court records describe as operating in Autopilot mode; his family's US product-liability suit was dismissed on forum grounds and the Ninth Circuit affirmed. Resolves a held-back item now that primary court records could be opened.

12 September 2026

Scan for 2026-09-12. Nothing meets the bar today; no new records and no tier changes. Reviewed: (1) three Electrek pieces from 1, 9 and 10 September 2026 identifying previously unreported fatal Tesla crashes in which Tesla's own NHTSA Standing General Order filings show a Level 2 driver-assist system was engaged (Batavia, Illinois; Vinemont/Morgan County, Alabama; Pattonsburg, Missouri) — all single-publisher, and Electrek itself states the data does not establish that the system was at fault; (2) the NTSB's preliminary report on the Waymo-versus-child-pedestrian collision in Santa Monica (HWY26FH008), which involved minor injuries and no death; (3) re-checked the two deferred Ford BlueCruise NTSB cases by opening the NTSB investigation page and report file for the San Antonio crash (HWY24FH006) — the probable-cause language does name the partial automation system's inability to detect the stationary vehicle as contributing, but nothing there establishes that BlueCruise's relevant behaviour is machine-learned, so both remain deferred; (4) re-checked the deferred Sophie Rottenberg case — NPR's 18 August 2026 report is accessible and detailed, but her mother's New York Times essay could not be opened and no second independent report was retrievable, so it stays deferred; (5) developments in open cases (Tumbler Ridge, JCCP 5431, Benavides appeal, Lokken/Martin v. UnitedHealth, Character.AI settlements, Florida AG) — the 2 September 2026 Tumbler Ridge filings are already reflected in the record and nothing new was found. Search capacity was exhausted part-way through the sweep, so several non-English queries and some deferred items (Christian Faith Madison; Thongbue Wongbandue; Xiaomi SU7 Tongling; Tomei Expressway; NIO Putian) could not be advanced today and carry over. No changes met the standard. Re-run: Scanned chatbot, vehicle, military and medical claims for 2–12 September 2026 in English, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish and French. No qualifying new death emerged from the last ten days: the only fresh vehicle material is Electrek's continuing data-matching of Tesla's redacted NHTSA filings (Mesa AZ, I-4 Florida, Buena Vista NJ), which is still effectively single-publisher and carries no allegation of fault. One held-back item now clears the bar: Alex Taylor, 35, Port St. Lucie, Florida, with independent reports from Rolling Stone and WPTV in which his father blames ChatGPT — proposed as alleged. No developments found that change the tier or finding of any existing case. No changes met the standard.

0 published · 16 held back · 8 rejected · 125 searches · claude-opus-5

11 September 2026

Initial research: four parallel research passes, one per kind of AI, followed by an editorial review of every case against the methodology. Published 5 confirmed cases (5 deaths) and 24 alleged cases (33 deaths). 14 cases were held back pending stronger sourcing and will be re-checked by the daily scan.

29 published · 14 held back · 13 rejected · 200 searches · claude-opus-5 (initial research)

Published

• belgian-man-chai-chatbot: Added.
• juliana-peralta-character-ai: Added.
• sewell-setzer-character-ai: Added.
• suzanne-adams-stein-erik-soelberg-chatgpt: Added.
• fsu-shooting-chatgpt: Added.
• adam-raine-chatgpt: Added.
• sam-nelson-chatgpt: Added.
• amaurie-lacey-chatgpt: Added.
• alice-carrier-chatgpt: Added.
• zane-shamblin-chatgpt: Added.
• joshua-enneking-chatgpt: Added.
• joe-ceccanti-chatgpt: Added.
• jonathan-gavalas-gemini: Added.
• austin-gordon-chatgpt: Added.
• tumbler-ridge-shooting-chatgpt: Added.
• elaine-herzberg-uber-self-driving: Added.
• joshua-brown-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• walter-huang-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• jeremy-banner-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• naibel-benavides-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• gao-yaning-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• jovani-maldonado-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• gardena-tesla-autopilot-crash: Added.
• landon-embry-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• genesis-mendoza-tesla-autopilot: Added.
• johna-story-tesla-fsd: Added.
• jeffrey-nissen-tesla-fsd: Added.
• gaza-ai-targeting: Added.
• jackie-martin-unitedhealth-nh-predict: Added.