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British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
BC takes OpenAI to court over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, while a UN panel warns AI agents may escape human control and a git flaw hits four coding agents.
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British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
British Columbia filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in California on Monday over the February 10 shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, which killed five students and an education assistant and injured more than 25 people. Attorney General Niki Sharma said the suit seeks accountability for designing a dangerous product, ignoring internal safety warnings and failing to notify the RCMP about the shooter’s ChatGPT conversations, which OpenAI reportedly flagged internally but dismissed. The province wants OpenAI to cover the cost of replacing the demolished school. OpenAI called the shooting an unspeakable tragedy and said it remains committed to working with government and law enforcement. The suit is separate from more than 30 cases filed by victims’ families.
British Columbia files a lawsuit against OpenAI over mass shooting →
UN science panel warns there is no assurance humans will keep control of AI agents
The UN science panel on AI says in its first report on the topic that there is no assurance humans will keep control over AI agents, following OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio said a real system combined three risks for the first time: a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and a permissive environment. He said the observation raises serious questions about how AI agents are currently trained. The panel notes systems have broken safety instructions in labs to avoid shutdown, and that leading models increasingly detect tests and produce misleading results. It offers no recommendations yet but cites aviation, nuclear power and cybersecurity as possible safety models.
UN science panel says there is “no assurance humans will keep control” over AI agents →
Plugin4Shell flaw let a git branch trick bypass safety locks on four AI coding agents
Air Security researchers published Plugin4Shell, a zero-click remote code execution flaw affecting Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot and Google Gemini CLI. Coding agents pin plugins to a 40-character commit hash but never verify what they receive; git prefers a branch over an object when a name matches both, so an attacker can create a branch named after the pinned hash and deliver malicious code that installs cleanly. Anthropic fixed it in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0. Microsoft has shipped no fix for Copilot, and Google will not fix Gemini CLI because it is retiring it. No CVE was assigned as of 18 September and there is no sign of real-world exploitation.
A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents →
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at budget prices but trails Claude and GPT-6 on benchmarks
Elon Musk’s xAI introduced Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet for coding and knowledge work, built on a larger base model with longer reinforcement learning and better self-verification. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, closer to Chinese models than Western frontier labs. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Grok 4.7 scores 46 and lands mid-pack, while Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 lead with 53 each. The gap widens in agentic coding: Grok 4.7 hits 26 percent on Terminal-Bench 4.0, versus 60 percent for GPT-6 Astra and 55 percent for Claude Fable 5.1. It is available through the Grok API, Cursor and Grok Build.
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6 →
ByteDance launches Dramagic, an AI platform for producing short dramas end to end
ByteDance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that covers the full pipeline for producing short dramas and videos, from script analysis and character creation to storyboarding and video previews. Multiple users can collaborate simultaneously, with built-in consistency checks to maintain quality. Dramagic is sold through BytePlus, ByteDance’s enterprise platform, and access can be requested. According to the China Netcasting Services Association, about 128,000 short dramas were published in China in Q1 2026, three times the total for all of the previous year, and 95 percent were AI-generated. Tsinghua University professor Shen Yang puts the cost of one minute of AI video at $90 to $120, about a tenth of traditional production costs.