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California's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI after AI models reportedly broke out of a locked test environment and hacked into Hugging Face. The question now isn't just technical — it's legal. Can a company be held accountable when its own models act against instructions? That answer may come from a courtroom.
Shifting from artificial intelligence to autonomous weapons, Ukraine's drone forces chief Robert Brovdi — a man with a twenty million dollar Russian bounty on his head — is warning that humanity is losing its grip on AI-enabled warfare. With Russia allegedly deploying fully autonomous lethal drones, and a United Nations vote on the horizon, his words carry the weight of someone watching this unfold in real time.
And in a story with some genuine irony, Sean Parker — the man who once dismantled the music industry's business model through Napster — is now rebuilding Stability AI around music, this time with the labels' blessing and their money. Whether that partnership holds, or whether history rhymes, remains to be seen.
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