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Who Acted? Courts, Insurers, and Researchers Chase the Same Question | 08.11.26
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled this week that when an AI agent shops on a user's behalf, it's the user, not the software, who "accesses" the target system under federal computer-crime law, the first circuit-level answer to a question agentic AI has been forcing on courts all year. The ruling lands the same week insurers are formalizing exclusions for generative-AI-related claims on commercial policies, quietly shifting uncovered liability back onto the enterprises deploying these systems. Meanwhile, two new academic papers are trying to build the plumbing underneath both developments: one…
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