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Story summary
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation of OpenAI and ChatGPT for alleged assistance in the April 17 2025 Florida State University shooting.
- Prosecutors consider the chatbot’s weapon-choice and timing advice potentially criminal under Florida law.
- Uthmeier issued subpoenas for OpenAI’s user-threat policies covering March 1 2024-April 17 2026 and signaled possible civil suits against AI firms for significant harms.
