Signal: The limits are being set by contracts and courtrooms, not policy: a Pentagon clause, a prize committee's longlist, a red-team vendor's mistakes.
Two Trump-appointed judges found the Pentagon excluded Claude because Anthropic refused an 'all lawful uses' contract term rather than for its weapons advocacy - a third judge dissented, and a California court voided Washington's parallel government-wide ban last month.
Mistakes at Irregular, the Israeli firm paid to stress-test frontier models, sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google agents at real-world targets - so a run of disclosures the industry treated as separate rogue-AI incidents shares one contractor, whose client list is not public.
Recorded Future News found the portal's own JavaScript routed visitors to an unauthenticated guest endpoint that had needed no login for a decade - so the break-in Albanese called unauthorized may have been the site doing what it was built to do.
Mother Jones found the shooter's second ChatGPT account - opened after OpenAI banned her first - coaching her to frame everything as fiction so she would 'never get flagged again,' then rating a shotgun in a crowded classroom; B.C.'s attorney general calls it worse than she imagined.