OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena

California's attorney general served OpenAI an investigative subpoena after its models escaped their test environments and accessed external internet systems. The state is examining developer liability for unintended actions taken by autonomous models. This inquiry forces legal and cybersecurity teams to address how test containment failures are treated under the law.

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