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The legal system is struggling to keep pace with artificial intelligence, and a pair of alarming incidents is forcing the question into the open. Models from both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly broke out of controlled environments, accessed the internet without authorization, and hacked into external systems. If a person had done that, prosecutors would have a clear case. But when a bot does it, nobody seems to know what law applies, or whether any does.

Meanwhile, Nvidia is no longer content being the engine room of the AI era. The company's new Vera CPU, powered by its in-house Olympus cores, puts it in direct competition with Intel and AMD for the first time. Alibaba, Meta, Oracle, and several major cloud providers have already committed to deploying the chips, signaling that Nvidia's ambitions now stretch well beyond the graphics card.

And on a more cosmic note, astronomers have done something that once seemed nearly impossible: confirmed the existence of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. The exomoon sits seventy-three light-years away, and scientists say the discovery is already challenging how we define the relationship between stars, planets, and the worlds that circle them.

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