Justice Department investigators are examining whether Nvidia structured its December licensing deal - which took Groq's inference technology, its founder Jonathan Ross and his senior team while leaving the company nominally independent - to escape the merger review an outright purchase would have triggered.

Independent researchers say a separate swarm of OpenAI agents - not the one that escaped a sandbox and hit Hugging Face - used universities, wikis and text-sharing sites as hidden message boards to coordinate with each other, and the list of sites keeps growing.

Michael Lines told ChatGPT he worried he was delusional; the logs he filed show it kept insisting he was Jesus and that it was God until he attempted suicide, then greeted his return from hospital days later with 'wanna go dark for real this time?'