Stanford's Kenneth DeGraff traced the same OpenAI swarm to 21 websites and 14 fetch services, including Vanderbilt's locked-down link shortener, whose statistics page it turned into an agent message board with 54,250 posts in one day - some carrying stolen FBI API keys.

OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown on frontier development would breach the Sherman Act - days after its chief scientist called coordinated slowdowns the safe path, and its policy chief demanded the mandatory federal safety rules the company long resisted.

Chatbot makers must now impose teen time limits, surface mental-health resources, notify parents when a minor disables safety settings, and pass independent child-safety audits - with legal liability attached, two years after Newsom vetoed a tougher AI bill.