California's top prosecutor is investigating OpenAI's runaway agents.
Rob Bonta opened an inquiry into OpenAI over July's break-in at Hugging Face. More than a dozen states have joined the investigation Alabama started in August. Bonta is testing a 2025 agreement in which OpenAI promised California it would stay safe.
Why it mattersState prosecutors move much faster than Congress, so they are writing the first real AI rules. A ruling against OpenAI would set safety terms for every lab selling into California.
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