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A home 3D printer is a careful machine, but also a dumb one.  It can't tell the difference between a firearm and a firehose.  It reads a list of movements, heats a nozzle, and lays down plastic or metal in thin layers until a shape appears.  That list can describe a bracket for a shelf, a replacement knob for a dishwasher, or a receiver for a firearm.  To the printer, those files are the same kind of thing: geometry.[1]

On 26 September 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill

Organizations today are often ambivalent about agentic AI because of both its unpredictable failures and its potential use in cybercrime.  Agentic systems are increasingly being given more control and are operating autonomously, taking on complex tasks and decision-making processes on behalf of users.   These are often conducted with minimal human oversight, and agentic AI systems are interacting directly with enterprise systems to automate workflows.  While this approach offers efficiency in ro