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Oct 04, 2026 Once just an element of science fiction, revelations of AIs gone rogue are increasingly everyday occurrences. As a result, Silicon Valley founders and executives are girding themselves for what they see as the inevitable: a cascade of legal action. One of those people is Paul Grewal, chief legal and global affairs officer at Cognition, a top AI startup building coding agents. He thinks criminal cases will face long odds, but he can picture opportunistic prosecutors taking a shot at the developers behind rogue agents, emboldened by growing public sentiment that AI companies are acting recklessly. “You’ve got a huge percentage of the regular public at least aware of what’s going on,” he said. “So I could imagine—in a certain political climate—that temptation for ambitious prosecutors will still be there.” Or, as Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, a tech policy think tank, put it: “All these AI companies are going to get sued up the wazoo.” Read the full article AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Novel Legal Battles Are Next By Leo Schwartz Related articles How Nscale’s Unbuilt Data Centers Undercut Its $35 Billion IPO Pitch By Anita Ramaswamy Cracks Emerge in AI’s Debt-Fueled Data Center Boom By Dakin Campbell How SpaceX’s AI Unit Turned Itself Into an AI Cloud Firm By Grace Kay Google Is Paying About 100 Digital Publishers for AI Overviews By Alix Coutures and Catherine Perloff Follow us Sent to you@example.com | Manage your preferences or unsubscribe | Help The Information · 251 Rhode Island Street, Suite 107, San Francisco, CA 94103