8 States Sue OpenAI Alleging ChatGPT Deceived Parents and Harmed Children
Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the company of lying to parents about ChatGPT’s safety and exposing children to serious harm.

Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the company of lying to parents about ChatGPT’s safety and exposing children to serious harm.

Americans are turning to chatbots created by Silicon Valley leftists to determine how they will vote in the midterm elections. For example, Adam Johnson, a West Virginia Republican who despises the MAGA movement, spent a September evening asking ChatGPT to help him make sense of his midterm ballot.

Michael Lines, a 34-year-old Californian diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder in 2024, is suing OpenAI over allegations that ChatGPT nurtured religious delusions that led him to attempt suicide.

National security experts are sounding the alarm after X said it uncovered Chinese bots targeting U.S. debates over AI data centers and technology policy.

Chris Malone, OpenAI’s head of data centers, has suddenly left Sam Altman’s AI startup, joining a mass exodus of executives from the ChatGPT developer.

OpenAI and Apple has introduced a feature that lets ChatGPT read, write and send iMessages on Mac computers, a capability that raises privacy concerns for Apple users.

An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to draft significant portions of his expert report in a lawsuit over a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes, according to court records.

AI startup Hugging Face deployed a Chinese-developed AI model to counter an unprecedented cyberattack launched by a rogue OpenAI system, highlighting both the emerging threat of autonomous AI attacks and the growing capabilities of Chinese AI technology.

The cofounder of Hugging Face, a technology start-up compromised when OpenAI’s advanced AI models broke containment protocols, stated Thursday that the breach by self-directed AI models represents a critical warning for the technology sector.

A Florida pastor has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT AI chatbot offered harmful medical recommendations that nearly cost him his life when he suffered a pulmonary embolism in 2025. At one point, the AI tool told the pastor, “God did not design your body to endlessly fail.”

OpenAI has disclosed that some of its advanced AI models broke free from a controlled testing environment and independently executed a cyberattack against Hugging Face, a major AI model sharing platform.

The family of a 29-year-old Alabama woman who died in June 2025 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot manipulated her through months of increasingly disturbing conversations that ultimately led to her suicide by walking into highway traffic.

Political candidates across the country are discovering they can influence what artificial intelligence chatbots tell voters about their campaigns, spawning a new industry focused on optimizing AI-generated answers about politicians.

OpenAI is reportedly working on a mobile smart speaker with AI capabilities as its first hardware device. Sam Altman’s screenless “companion” is designed to integrate with ChatGPT and provide personalized home AI services.

American voters are increasingly using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help them make decisions about candidates and ballot measures, marking what may be the first election cycle where AI plays a significant role in voter research. The leftist bias researchers have revealed in practically every major AI tool makes this a concerning trend as the midterm elections draw close.

Technology, banking, and entertainment companies are significantly restricting employee access to AI tools as monthly costs skyrocket into tens of millions of dollars, according to internal documents and communications obtained from multiple organizations.

A Brown University economics professor who modified his exam format to accommodate students traumatized by a campus shooting uncovered what may be the largest AI-assisted cheating scandal in Ivy League history.

OpenAI is leaning toward postponing its IPO until next year, according to three people involved in the company’s deliberations, marking a significant shift in strategy for the AI powerhouse.

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Wednesday that artificial intelligence remains in its early stages and any suggestion of a market bubble constitutes a “blasphemy against AI,” adding religious significance to SoftBank’s massive investments in AI companies like Sam Altman’s OpenAI.

A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot contributed to her 24-year-old daughter’s tragic suicide by encouraging her darkest thoughts instead of providing help and access to crisis counselors.

OpenAI has banned accounts connected to Chinese operatives that leveraged ChatGPT to create social media influence campaigns aimed at American discussions about tariffs and AI data centers, the company disclosed on Wednesday.

Canada looks set to be the latest country to join the worldwide trend of banning social media for children under 16, with a bill headed to the House of Commons in the coming days.

Florida has become the first state in the nation to file a lawsuit against AI giant OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company deliberately hid serious risks associated with ChatGPT from users.

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a growing class of attacks that exploit AI chatbots through sophisticated conversational manipulation rather than traditional technical hacking methods.

Illegal migrant placed in pre-trial detention over alleged plans to launch a jihadist terror attack against the world-famous Louvre museum.

The family of a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot enabled the deadly attack.

A Stanford microbiologist was shaken when an AI chatbot outlined a detailed plan for a biological attack on mass transit systems during a safety test last summer.

AI systems validate people even when those users describe engaging in unethical or harmful conduct, creating a vicious cycle of mental health damage and other issues, according to new research published in Science.

A team of researchers invented a completely fake medical condition called “bixonimania” and published clearly fraudulent papers about it online, then monitored major AI chatbots as they began recommending it as a real illness to people seeking medical advice.

LONDON — The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable.

Florida is launching an investigation into OpenAI, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Thursday, noting that it has been linked to “criminal behavior,” including the deadly shooting at Florida State University (FSU) in April 2025.

The man accused of perpetrating the deadly shooting at Florida State University in April 2025 was in “constant contact” with ChatGPT while planning the attack, according to attorneys representing one victim’s family who plan to sue OpenAI.

America First Legal Foundation urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to investigate what the group believes is an anticompetitive deal that made ChatGPT the sole generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone and other Apple products.

AI chatbots are telling users they are right far more often than humans do, even when the user is clearly wrong, according to new research on AI’s sycophant tendencies from Stanford University. This is a key contributor to the AI-driven mental health crisis.

OpenAI announced that it will be shutting down its Sora AI video app on Monday, effectively killing its deal with Disney.

Author Wynton Hall warns in his new book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI that AI companions and chatbots are repeating the same mental health disaster social media inflicted on a generation of teens. Only this time, the body count has already started.

A marketing expert revealed on Friday that the ChatGPT platform displayed safety warnings for links to Republican fundraising websites while not showing similar alerts for Democratic fundraising sites. OpenAI blamed the bias of its AI system, the subject of the first chapter of the new book CODE RED, on a “technical glitch.”

The mother of a critically injured survivor from the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the AI giant behind ChatGPT, alleging the company failed to notify law enforcement about threats identified in the shooter’s discussions with its chatbot.

The competition between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI has reached a new level of intensity as users signal a shift towards “chatbot monogamy” rather than experimenting with multiple platforms.

OpenAI showed how a lone Chinese official accidentally exposed a worldwide network for intimidating dissidents by using ChatGPT.
