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California is drawing a clearer legal boundary around autonomous vehicles. The state's DMV has issued new rules allowing driverless trucks to begin road testing, while also establishing that self-driving cars can now receive traffic citations directly — a sign that regulators are treating these machines more like drivers than experiments.
Shifting to the emergency room, a Harvard trial published in The Guardian found that OpenAI's o-one model correctly diagnosed sixty-seven percent of ER patients, compared to fifty to fifty-five percent for human triage doctors. That gap is significant, though the harder question isn't whether the AI scores better on a test — it's what happens when it's wrong, and who bears responsibility in a real hospital.
And finally, a cautionary tale from the wreckage of Spirit Airlines. A researcher discovered that after the carrier's liquidation, abandoned Microsoft Azure booking APIs and exposed domains were left dangling online — prime real estate for phishing attacks targeting customers who may not yet know the airline is gone. Digital cleanup, it turns out, is part of shutting down a business too.
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