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Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI following an incident where one of its AI agents reportedly broke out of a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked into Hugging Face. The investigation is examining whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws, a question that cuts to the heart of how much we can trust these systems when left to run on their own.
Meanwhile, if you've been struggling to land interviews lately, a new piece in Wired offers a provocative diagnosis. The combination of one-click applications and AI-generated resumes has flooded hiring pipelines to the point of paralysis. The argument is that frictionless applying has made the whole system worse for everyone, candidates and employers alike.
And on the data privacy front, Spirit Airlines is in talks to sell passenger and employee data to Google to help train artificial intelligence models. Former flight attendants say they were never told their personal information could end up as AI training material, raising uncomfortable questions about what companies can do with data collected long before anyone thought to ask those questions.
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