Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.
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Eight state attorneys general accuse OpenAI of misleading parents about ChatGPT safety
Attorneys general in eight states sued OpenAI on October 14, alleging it misled parents about ChatGPT's safety. A proposed class action filed a day earlier alleges the company collected children's data without valid parental consent.
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Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk" after 4,000-plus test prompts showed long suicide and self-harm chats rarely alerted parents. OpenAI disputes when the tests ran, but the report has already graded the product against California's Adam's Law, which takes effect in July 2027.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a judge to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party approval. Trump has eased AI rules by executive order, but Florida is still taking OpenAI and Sam Altman to court.
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Florida asks a court to make outside safety checks a condition of OpenAI's next models
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court on Monday to bar OpenAI from advancing its frontier models without third-party safety oversight. OpenAI had already paused training its most capable models on its own, so for teams building on OpenAI the fight is over who decides when that delay ends.
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ChatGPT for Teens enrolls anyone the system predicts is under 18, with no opt-in step. Automated age inference has moved from a research promise to a shipped default.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers Karandeep Anand becomes Disney's senior executive vice president and CTO on October 2, reporting to Josh D'Amaro. Disney expects an unspecified number of Character.AI engineers to follow him into a remit covering enterprise systems, data and AI.
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OpenAI made age prediction the default gate, so its false-negative rate is now the product
ChatGPT for Teens routes users by a classifier's guess, not a signup choice. OpenAI has not published how often that guess misses a minor, and outside experts say it misses plenty.
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OpenAI's 13-17 tier turns teen AI safety into an age-assurance problem
ChatGPT for Teens folds a year of bolt-on parental controls into a product boundary. The hard part is now deciding which account a minor is sitting in, and who configured it.
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A school laptop, a chatbot, and a principal who said not to worry
A pediatrician's account in STAT puts a district-issued device at the centre of sexual chat with a 12-year-old. The only filter that caught it belonged to the parents.
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OpenAI's teen ChatGPT is a compliance product, and rivals will be measured against it
The 13-to-17 tier blocks romantic chat, self-harm content and any hint the model has feelings. That list is now the floor for competitors and school buyers.
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