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Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI moved into courtroom drama this week, with Musk spending the better part of three days on the witness stand. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are being surfaced as evidence. His core argument is that Sam Altman betrayed the organization's founding mission by converting it into a for-profit company — and with more witnesses still to come, this one is far from over.
Meanwhile, the FBI is sounding alarms over a surge in cargo theft that has gone thoroughly digital. Cybercriminals infiltrated shipping supply chains last year, rerouting physical goods to fund broader criminal operations — with losses climbing to nearly seven hundred twenty-five million dollars in two thousand twenty-five. This is not smash-and-grab; it is sophisticated, coordinated fraud running through logistics software.
And on the encryption front, Canada is now the latest government pushing what officials are calling lawful access — essentially a mechanism for law enforcement to reach encrypted communications. Cybersecurity researchers are pushing back hard, arguing that any intentional weakness in encryption is a weakness for everyone, not just the targets of investigations. The debate is old, but the pressure keeps building.
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