Hawley and Murphy Target AI Agent Makers as Micron Says Memory Stays Tight Into 2028
Friday, October 2, 2026 · 10 min
A bipartisan Senate bill would make AI agent developers and operators liable when their models hack other systems, and we step back on who carries the blame. Plus Micron's sold-out memory, Tencent's reported $7 billion Oracle lease, and a Stratego AI trained on 16 GPUs.
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A bipartisan Senate bill would make AI agent developers and operators liable when their models hack other systems, and we step back on who carries the blame. Plus Micron's sold-out memory, Tencent's reported $7 billion Oracle lease, and a Stratego AI trained on 16 GPUs.
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- AI firms should be held liable for their models’ actions, lawmakers say - Nextgov/FCW — Edward Graham
AI firms should be held liable for their models’ actions, lawmakers say - Nextgov/FCW # AI firms should be held liable for their models’ actions, lawmakers say Chairman Josh Hawley, R-Mo., arrives for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census hearing titled "Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent…
- Step Back — If an AI agent makes a harmful decision while acting on its own, who should be legally responsible—the developer, the company using it, or the person who deployed it—and what makes that different from ordinary software liability?
Background sources
- Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks — Mike Scarcella
- AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — Tory Shepherd
- Nondeterministic Torts: A Technical Approach to AI Liability | Yale Law Journal — Yale Law Journal
- Operational responsibility in AI governance: a user-centric liability framework | AI and Ethics | Springer Nature Link — Springer Nature Link
- Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 — Ars Technica - All content
Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects demand for the firm’s memory to exceed its available supply over that period, he told investors last night. Micron no longer sells consumer RAM, and Mehrotra’s statements refer to Micron’s business-to-business sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM)…
- Tencent Reportedly Strikes $7 Billion Oracle Deal for 100,000 AI Chips in Southeast Asia - Tekedia — Tekedia
Tencent Reportedly Strikes $7 Billion Oracle Deal for 100,000 AI Chips in Southeast Asia - Tekedia # Tencent Reportedly Strikes $7 Billion Oracle Deal for 100,000 AI Chips in Southeast Asia October 1, 2026 | by Samuel Nwite | 0 Tencent has reportedly signed its largest overseas cloud leasing agreement with Oracle, securing access to about 100,000 advanced artificial intelligence chips…
- With most information hidden, the game Stratego — Ars Technica - All content
Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. But one classic game called Stratego held out. Even DeepMind, with its exceptional budget, couldn’t build a machine that reliably beat the best human players. Now, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford…