A finger is poised to tap the ChatGPT app icon displayed on a smartphone screen in Creteil, France, on October 1, 2026, as OpenAI begins rolling out Dots in ChatGPT, its new system of autonomous AI agents. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via AP)August’s landmark settlement with Meta may have only whetted the appetite of state attorneys general to take on Big Tech. This past Wednesday, eight state attorneys general — from Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, ​Kansas, Montana, Nebraska ​and West ⁠Virginia — announced new lawsuits against OpenAI, accusing the frontier lab of a variety of illegal activities, many of which echo the recently resolved claims against Meta. Although Wednesday’s actions by the state attorneys general were coordinated and share the same counsel — large identical passages appear in the lawsuits — the suits were filed separately.The state suits may have attracted the most headlines, but they were not the only new legal claims against the company last week. On Tuesday, a proposed class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California on behalf of a mother and her two children concerning OpenAI’s acquisition of children's data. And on Wednesday, litigation and advocacy organization Tech Justice Law and co-counsel filed another four suits in San Francisco County, California on behalf of private individuals alleged to have been harmed by OpenAI’s products. That group has filed a dozen previous complaints with…

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