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Florida has become the first US state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT‘s safety and design, adding to a massive wave of existing lawsuits against the company.

According to the lawsuit (PDF) filed on Monday by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, OpenAI has built a “web of deceit and the exploitation of users, including Floridians.” Florida alleges the company violated state laws against deceptive or unfair trade practices to boost its own market value — and profits — over the safety of its users.

The state’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, says they willfully ignored warnings, both from inside and outside of the company, about the many risks AI poses to its users. Florida alleges that OpenAI lied about ChatGPT’s reliability, suitability for children and promotes prolonged use that leads to users’ cognitive decline.

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

The lawsuit comes as Florida pursues a criminal investigation into whether ChatGPT played a role in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and injured six others. In that case, the shooter allegedly used ChatGPT to plan the attack, including advising on the type of weon, the timing of the massacre and how to dispose of human bodies.

At the time, OpenAI said: “Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime.”

There are growing concerns about how ChatGPT and other chatbots can feed into people’s violent actions and harmful delusions. Experts have found that chatbots like ChatGPT can struggle to push back on dangerous ideas and be so eager to please that they can provide factually incorrect information, a problem called sycophancy.

Another area of concern for legislators and tech watchdog groups is over OpenAI’s data collection and privacy practices. Florida’s complaint says that ChatGPT offers kids unfettered access to “harmful information” about eating disorders and self-harm. By concealing these risks and promoting ChatGPT as safe, OpenAI has misled Floridians and the general public with a dangerous product, the complaint says.

OpenAI said in a statement that it believes minors need significant protections around AI and has worked to provide them to parents and teens. “Losing a child is the most devastating tragedy that can hpen to a family and we know that no words can come close to addressing the pain of such a loss,” an OpenAI spokesperson said. “We’re committed to getting this right.”

Reining in AI

While this is the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI around child safety, numerous state governments are taking action around AI. California, Illinois and New York have created new laws to rein in how AI companies operate.

Florida’s lawsuit is a civil case, which would result in penalties (money) and court orders instead of criminal charges. Though it’s unclear still how the financial penalty will play out, Meta and Google were recently ordered to pay $3 million after a jury found them guilty of creating addictive social media ps; in a separate case, Meta was ordered to pay $375 million on child exploitation charges. These cases deal with social media, not AI, but these legal strategies used against Big Tech could provide a legal roadm going forward.

Despite a growing state and local backlash against AI, the Trump administration’s newest AI plan shows it wants the federal government to be in charge of making the rules around the technology. The White House has been outspoken in its support for AI infrastructure projects, including the boom of data center construction projects across the US.

It’s “all systems glow” for ple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company’s annual developer conference. WWDC returns on June 8, and anticipation is building as ple unveils the WWDC 2026 tagline, a curated ple Music playlist, computer wallpers and more.

The all systems glow tagline, revealed in an ple Developer blog, is a play on the phrase “all systems go” and may allude to the release of iOS 27 and its rumored new features. Recent leakssuggest ple’s next mobile OS could introduce a dedicated Siri p and chatbot, complete with a built-in dark mode and glowing UI elements. The new tagline may suggest that the UI leaks are accurate.

ple’s previous tagline for WWDC 2026 was “coming bright up,” also alluding to lighting elements.

It seems ple is also hoping to cture a poppy, upswing vibe for its upcoming developer conference, if the musical teaser posted by the company’s senior vice president of marketing, Greg Joswiak, is any indication. For the first time, ple has also released an official ple Music playlist for WWDC. It features 20 contemporary songs from artists like the resurgent pop star Zara Larsson and K-pop supergroup BTS. You can find the full playlist here.

There’s also a new wallper featuring WWDC 2026 key art, which you can download from ple’s “glow all out” developer blog here. The black-and-chrome image is (predictably) propriately sized for use as a background on Macs, iPads and iPhones.

In addition to iOS 27, ple may launch updated versions of its operating systems for other products, including Macs, iPads, ple Watches and ple Vision Pro headsets.

It’s unlikely that ple will reveal any massive hardware announcements at WWDC, since the company recently unveiled the budget MacBook Neo, the iPhone 17E and new M5 MacBook models. Even if the rumored foldable iPhone is nearly ready, it’s safe to assume that ple will reveal it during the company’s September event.

The 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference is likely to be a landmark moment for ple — and not just because of the software updates the company is prepping. The keynote speech may be the final talk given by CEO Tim Cook, who is passing the baton to ple’s current senior vice president of software engineering, John Ternus, at the beginning of September.

None of the leaks or predictions about WWDC 2026 is confirmed. An ple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Florida’s Attorney General has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, according to a report by NBC News. The suit accuses the company of pushing a product it knew could harm users. “The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI’s market value at unacceptable costs,” the complaint reads.

The civil suit seeks penalties and court orders rather than criminal charges. AG James Uthmeier said the lawsuit “seeks to hold Altman personally liable for the harm he has caused Floridians through his reckless and willful conduct as founder and CEO of OpenAI, including his utter disregard for the risk to human life caused by his firms’ conduct.” Uthmeier did open up a criminal investigation into the company a couple of months back, which is ongoing.

AG James Uthmeier Announces First-in-the-Nation State Lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) June 1, 2026

Today’s suit accuses OpenAI of four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws and one count each of fraudulent misrepresentation and causing a public nuisance. The suit also claims that the company’s systems present a “great danger of addiction, cognitive decline, suicide, violence and related harms” to users.

OpenAI has yet to respond to the suit, but has in the past stated that it designs its systems with “safety at every step” and that it has “safeguards in place to help people, especially teens, when conversations turn sensitive.” The company also says that its systems have been trained to “de-escalate conversations and guide people toward real-world support.”

Unfortunately, real-world events suggest otherwise. The complaint brings up a couple of recent violent incidents involving ChatGPT. A mass shooter descended upon Florida State University last year, killing two and wounding at least six, after allegedly discussing plans with ChatGPT.

These allegations suggest that the shooter was given advice on what guns to use and how to gain media attention from the chatbot. OpenAI says it was “not responsible for this terrible crime” and that the chatbot simply “provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet.”

Additionally, two University of South Florida students were shot and killed earlier this year. The alleged shooter was also reportedly in contact with ChatGPT during the planning stages. A lawsuit filing suggests he received information on how to hide bodies from the chatbot.

Those are the big cases in Florida, but similar situations have been playing out throughout the world. There was a mass shooting in British Columbia back in February in which eight people were killed, including children, and dozens were injured. The alleged shooter was also reportedly in regular contact with ChatGPT and the company actually flagged the account for “gun violence activity and planning.” OpenAI, however, didn’t alert authorities and simply deactivated the account. The alleged shooter created a second profile and continued the conversation, according to another recent lawsuit.

There are also several cases in which ChatGPT allegedly assisted people in planning their own suicide. All told, OpenAI is facing at least eight lawsuits stemming from incidents of mass violence or self-harm.

Today’s suit in Florida even calls out OpenAI and ChatGPT for many of the everyday issues that we all experience with generative AI. The suit argues that the company’s advertisements, which tout the software’s ability to help farmers and other small businesses, “do not disclose that ChatGPT can be wrong, can make mistakes or that it can provide false, nonsensical or hallucinated information.”

“ChatGPT’s unreliability is dangerous,” the suit reads. Finally, the language criticizes ChatGPT’s notorious propensity for sycophancy and alleges this is an overt tactic to increase user engagement. The complaint says this practice “leads to more use of the chatbot, more training data for its improvement and more market value for OpenAI.”