On a damp September morning, thousands of miles from the country that once knew him as the King of Good Times, Vijay Mallya was not going quietly. The fallen airline tycoon, now a permanent fixture in Britain’s legal and media landscape, returned to his favourite battlefield—social media—to launch yet another offensive against the Indian agencies that have pursued him for years. In a string of posts on X, Mallya insisted that he was the victim, not the villain, of one of India’s most dramatic financial sagas. He reminded his followers that he had been branded a fugitive, but argued that…

1. On a Wednesday in early September, a lawyer stood before the New Mexico Supreme Court not as an advocate arguing a brilliant legal theory, but as a man explaining how he had placed his trust in the wrong place. Stephen Aarons, a Santa Fe attorney handling a murder appeal, had submitted a brief to the court that he believed was a faithful summary of trial proceedings. Instead, the document was built in part on inventions—testimony from witnesses who never existed, descriptions of events that never happened, and details that had been dreamed up by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The state’s highest…