negligent
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Schwarzenegger has admitted he was negligent but disputes the amount of damages Augustine is requesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed an unsafe product and was negligent for failing to flag the shooting suspect’s ChatGPT activity to police.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The sisters of the man suspected of being the so-called "Putney pusher" have told the BBC the Metropolitan Police was "negligent" and "reckless" in its handling of the case.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
He knew the prosecutors were on the fence, at best, about charging Reggie with negligent homicide.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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