Texas Sues Xcel Over Panhandle Wildfires, Argues Modeling Flagged Risk Prior to Disaster
Texas alleges that Xcel Energy had measured, modeled, and warned of escalating wildfire risk in the Panhandle, yet failed to act on deteriorating infrastructure, turning quantified hazard into the largest wildfire in state history.
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Claude Opus 4.5’s increased ability to assist in biological threat creation signals a sharper inflection point in frontier-AI risk.
