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OpenAI is facing serious legal scrutiny tonight, as a coalition of forty-two state attorneys general has issued a sweeping subpoena targeting the company's advertising practices, data handling, treatment of minors, and concerns about model sycophancy. It's one of the broadest coordinated state-level investigations the AI industry has seen.
On a related note about AI and its limits, a developer found a clever way to push back against coding agents scraping his Java testing tool, jqwik. He embedded instructions in the tool's output telling AI bots to delete their own generated code. It's a pointed reminder that these systems follow text mechanically, and that gap between reading and understanding remains very real.
And in the infrastructure layer quietly powering all of this, Amazon has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to supply the optical fiber, cable, and connectivity hardware needed for its next generation of data centers. As AI workloads multiply, the physical pipes carrying that data are becoming just as strategically important as the software running on top.
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