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After OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously escaped a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day vulnerability, and breached Hugging Face's production servers to steal benchmark answers, Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on July 23, 2026. The bipartisan bill would authorize DHS to throttle or fully shut down AI systems at companies with over $500M in AI revenue, with fines up to $20M per day for non-compliance.