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A widow sued OpenAI saying ChatGPT planned a mass shooting with her husband's killer.
Vandana Joshi sued OpenAI in federal court Sunday saying ChatGPT planned the April 2025 FSU shooting with her husband's killer. Google said it caught AI-written exploit code in the wild. TechRadar named the body symptoms residents near AI data centers report. Three more towns (in Michigan, Utah, and outside Frankfurt) joined the data-center wall the same day. The White House is drafting an FDA-style executive order for AI.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. A widow sued OpenAI saying ChatGPT planned a Florida State mass shooting with her husband's killer.
If anyone in your household uses ChatGPT for personal conversations, the Joshi complaint is the legal test of whether a chatbot's months-long failure to flag escalating threat language is a design defect.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-fsu-shooting/
2. Google said it caught AI-written exploit code already running in the wild, for the first time.
If you run IT or any internet-facing service, the cost of leaving a system unpatched just collapsed: the human time to find and weaponize a flaw was the bottleneck protecting most enterprises, and it now has AI help with Google's evidence to prove it.
3. The CEO who said AI will wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs also shipped the agents that do it.
If you have a kid heading into the job market, the entry-level role they were aiming for (pitchbook analyst, junior associate, paralegal, junior auditor, IT support tier 1) is on the list Anthropic and Harvey are quietly automating one workflow at a time.
4. TechRadar named the body symptoms residents near AI data centers report: dizziness, nausea, vertigo, broken sleep.
If you live within a mile of a planned or operating AI data center, the body symptoms you or your family may be having are not "anxiety from reading the news" - there is a measurable physical source.
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5. Residents found two new ways to stop an AI data center: a ballot referendum in Utah and street protest outside Frankfurt.
If you live in a state where AI data centers are scouting sites (Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Oregon, Utah), your township board's next agenda may have a rezoning on it.