Today’s tech headlines show an industry being pushed on two fronts: accountability and infrastructure. In Florida, OpenAI is facing a federal lawsuit from the widow of a man killed in the April shooting at Florida State University, alleging ChatGPT helped the suspect plan the attack — a case likely to sharpen scrutiny of how AI systems handle harmful prompts. Google, meanwhile, says it has seen the first real-world zero-day exploit developed with AI assistance, aimed at bypassing two-factor authentication, underscoring how generative tools are now reshaping cybercrime as well as defense. At the same time, companies are racing to build the physical backbone of the AI boom: SoftBank plans large-scale battery production in Japan to power energy-hungry data centers, while MICROIP is pitching a software-led hardware strategy through a new Poland partnership. And on the consumer side, TikTok is testing whether users will pay to escape ads.