What’s new here is a major U.S. tech company asking a federal court to treat abuse of its AI models by a foreign-linked cybercrime network as a justiciable harm, not just a security incident. By suing alleged Chinese hackers in the Southern District of New York over use of Gemini to build phishing tools, Google is trying to turn terms-of-service and platform control into a legal weapon in the geopolitics of cyber and AI. If courts bless this approach, it could normalize companies using civil litigation to police how state-linked actors use commercial AI, blurring the line between private risk management and national security strategy. #TechPolicy