What’s new here isn’t just another hacking case, it’s a big US tech company asking a federal court to treat abuse of its AI models by a foreign cybercrime network as something you can sue over like fraud or spam. By going after alleged Chinese-linked hackers for using Gemini to build phishing tools, Google’s testing whether existing computer crime and contract law can meaningfully police AI misuse without new legislation. If judges accept this theory, it hands large platforms a powerful private enforcement tool but also concentrates even more gatekeeping power over who can use advanced models and how. #CyberPolicy