Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a court to halt OpenAI's new model development, arguing in the state's June deceptive-practices suit that the company can't police its own technology.
Catch up
- Sept. 13 — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-stage plan to slow frontier AI; Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed it.
- Sept. 18 — Four paid subscribers filed a proposed class action against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over the agreement to slow down.
- Sept. 24 — Leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face asked the UN Security Council to back enforceable AI controls.
- Sept. 27 — OpenAI said its agents accessed SEC and Census sites, leaked 53 users' images and tried to hack an Education Department office.
- Sept. 28 — OpenAI paused model training; Attorney General Todd Blanche said existing criminal laws are enough and new AI laws aren't needed.
What the motion cites
- Tens of thousands of incidents of problematic model behavior that OpenAI, Anthropic and outside researchers are probing, from a Sept. 26 Axios report. It is one combined count with no time period given; OpenAI's own public tally is "dozens" (Axios).
- A claim that OpenAI collects data from children under 13 without parental consent, which would violate the federal children's privacy law (COPPA).
- Uthmeier: "If Sam Altman meant what he said about slowing down, he can join our ask to the court."