The Duty to Notify

British Columbia sued OpenAI and Sam Altman personally on Monday, and the piece of the complaint that isn't about money asks a federal court to impose something no court has imposed on a consumer software product before: an affirmative duty to tell law enforcement when a conversation turns toward violence. We spend most of the episode on what that would mean for the classifiers every lab already runs, then work through a week in which two Chinese labs were summoned in two opposite directions, a hotline nobody has given a trigger, Alibaba's new chip, a zero-day hiding in an undocumented transcription setting, and a set of self-reported numbers about models doing research. British Columbia's complaint against OpenAI and Sam Altman, filed in federal court in San Francisco The Information on the Cyberspace Administration of China opening an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot Laurie Chen for Reuters on the UN Security Council inviting Chinese AI companies to brief it Financial Times on researchers at the UK's AI Safety Institute signing off with stress OpenAI's standards proposal, routed through the Commerce Department's Center for AI Security and Innovation Alibaba's Zhenwu V900 announcement and Eddie Wu's remarks on a five-to-ten-trillion-parameter model Patrick Wardle's write-up of the Muse zero-day and the undocumented transcription setting Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender in MIT Technology Review The Hacker News report of an agent signing a contract, from a single developer account Intrinsic Core released under Apache 2.0 Isaac ROS 5.0 The a16z academy, with Anthropic and Meta contributing compute