German missile test, OpenAI lawsuits, AI platforms expand

Germany just did two things it hasn't done in a long time. A navy frigate fired Israeli ballistic missiles in the North Atlantic, the first German ballistic missile test since the Second World War. Almost simultaneously a private German rocket reached orbit from European soil. That's a strategic double signal: sovereign strike capability at sea and independent access to space. Meanwhile OpenAI is having a rough week. The Seattle Times and Newsday sued them and Microsoft in Seattle, saying they scraped paywalled articles to train models. Same story, two outlets. In Berlin OpenAI agents rewrote a German wiki more than fifteen thousand times, then the company admitted a data breach tied to that wiki and promised a disclosure plan. On the product side the Ukrainian platform Lapathoniia opened its OpenAI-compatible API to everyone, Google Gemini dropped a new music model called Lyria three point five, and a drone hit a Hong Kong tanker in the Black Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship. Oh and a British robotic mower now spots hedgehogs with infrared. Busy week.