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In California, “the AI did it” is no longer a defence. Washington and Berlin are working out who answers when an agent acts: whoever built it, whoever runs it, or both.

Week 41 · 11 Oct 2026NEW

Five pieces on liability for agents. A lawsuit over some 700 OpenAI agents, the first known one to lean on California’s new rule. A former computer-crime prosecutor who reads the federal hacking law as probably missing the case. An announced bill whose first part covers operators. An industrial security firm on two utilities where attackers used AI, and on why most plants could not tell afterwards what happened. And a German product liability law that covers software and AI from December, but not damage between companies. Curated and commented, not aggregated.

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In California, “the AI did it” is no longer a defence. Washington and Berlin are working out who answers when an agent acts: whoever built it, whoever runs it, or both.
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