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The obituary of Toyohiro Akiyama closes a chapter in spaceflight that began with a television network's anniversary stunt and ended with a quiet funeral in Tokyo. He was not an astronaut in the traditional sense, nor a scientist with a payload of experiments. He was a journalist who bought his seat with corporate money and filed dispatches from orbit, making him a precursor to the commercial space passengers who would follow decades later.

The legal theory is straightforward: a platform that sees a threat and does nothing becomes part of the threat. Thirty new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman argue exactly that, alleging the company's automated review systems flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT conversations about gun violence, and then no human intervened.