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Federal prosecutors revealed an unsealed filing against an ex-OpenAI engineer accused of planting an HQ bug before booking a one-way flight to Saudi Arabia, as OpenAI simultaneously alleged trade secret leaks to Apple. In geopolitics, researchers made direct contact with an autonomous AI agent swarm scraping Alibaba Amap from Tencent Cloud. Deep-dive reporting tracked amateur astronomers using AI agents to flag candidate exoplanets in NASA archives, while research showed direct AI answers sharply diminish solo human problem-solving skills.