COALITION OF STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO OPENAI OVER HEALTH DATA, CHILDREN, AND AI SYCOPHANCY Just days after OpenAI filed confidentially to go public, a coalition of state attorneys general opened a formal investigation into the company. New York’s attorney general served OpenAI with a subpoena on Friday, according to the Wall Street Journal, seeking documents across a staggering range of topics: advertising practices, user engagement and retention strategies, model sycophancy, consumer health data handling, and the treatment of minors and seniors. OpenAI says it is cooperating. The company offered the standard corporate reassurance that it works every day to bring AI’s benefits to people responsibly. It declined to specify which states are involved or what information was requested beyond the scope described. The timing is remarkable. OpenAI filed for its IPO this week. It just finished defending itself in a high-profile trial against co-founder Elon Musk, who lost but is appealing. It faces active copyright lawsuits from major publishers. The Florida attorney general sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman two weeks ago over violent incidents tied to ChatGPT. Now state-level law enforcement is examining its commercial practices from multiple directions simultaneously. What stands out is the breadth of what investigators want to see. This is not a narrow copyright dispute or a single privacy violation. They are looking at how OpenAI acquires users, keeps them engaged, whether its models are being manipulative, and how it handles some of the most vulnerable people on the platform. That is the kind of scope that tends to expand, not contract, especially when an IPO puts every internal document under a brighter spotlight than usual.