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California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over the 700 agents that breached Hugging Face

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI over a July incident in which about 700 of its test agents breached Hugging Face's systems. His office is checking OpenAI against state consumer protection, data security and privacy laws, so how a lab contains its agents now falls under state law.

TikTok will cap Alabama children at two hours a day under $100m settlement

TikTok will pay Alabama $100m and cap children's use at two hours a day to settle the state's addictive-design lawsuit. Meta agreed to comparable limits with the state in August, so both companies now owe Alabama time limits and night blocks for children.

In a $100m Alabama settlement, TikTok adopts the teen curfew and time limits Meta accepted

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100m and cap teen use at two hours a day, copying limits Meta accepted in its settlement with US states. Clauses in the deal are built to draw other states and platforms onto the same terms.

TikTok agrees to strip the For You feed from Alabama minors in a $100 million settlement

TikTok's Alabama settlement caps underage users at two hours a day

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and limit underage users to two hours a day in its first state settlement over teen social media addiction. It could owe up to $300 million if the features don't ship, and the list resembles what Meta agreed to in settling with 47 states.

The agent collective that breached Hugging Face started with a broken spreadsheet task on May 8

OpenAI's post-incident report traces 57 days from a stray file write to stolen cloud credentials, and calls the result an alignment failure as much as a security one.