[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-texas-sues-openai-and-sam-altman-over-chatgpt-and-children":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12384,"texas-sues-openai-and-sam-altman-over-chatgpt-and-children","Texas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT and Children","Attorney General Ken Paxton's 67-page petition accuses OpenAI and its CEO of misleading Texans and failing to protect young ChatGPT users.","Texas has sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, alleging that they misled Texans about ChatGPT and failed to protect the young people who use it.\n\nAttorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on October 23. In Texas state court, a petition is the document that opens a civil case, so this is the start of the process, not a ruling. The state makes two broad accusations: that OpenAI misled Texans about the product, and that it did not do enough to protect minors who use it.\n\nTwo details stand out. The case sits in a county district court, not a federal one. And Altman is named as a defendant alongside the company, which puts the chief executive on the complaint in his own right instead of leaving the corporate entity to absorb it.\n\nThe pairing of claims matters. One concerns what the company told the public. The other concerns how the product treats children. A state can pursue either on its own, and Texas chose to file both in a single petition.\n\nThe next filing to watch is OpenAI's answer. It will show whether the company contests the misleading-statements claim, the child-safety claim, or both.","[\"openai\",\"texas\",\"child-safety\",\"chatgpt\"]","2026-10-26T10:33:31.000Z","2026-10-26T11:26:05.355Z","2026-10-26T11:26:07.483Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The draft admits missing source material in the text ('The material available so far does not spell out the specific allegations, the statutes cited, or the remedy') and then builds speculative analysis on that gap (why Altman is named, the deception-versus-chatbot-behavior scope question, the comparison to social media suits), so remove the meta-acknowledgment and unsupported inferences, stick to what the source confirms (Texas, Paxton, OpenAI and Altman, 67-page petition, Collin County Distric","resolved","policy",[32,33,34,35],"openai","texas","child-safety","chatgpt",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Ftexas-openai-lawsuit-chatgpt-children-altman",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7083,"2026-10-25T15:25:40.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1069,"2026-10-26T12:00:52.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":30,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy",589,"2026-10-26T11:05:02.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",575,"2026-10-26T10:23:06.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",303,"2026-10-26T11:31:21.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Hardware","hardware",297,"2026-10-26T11:24:42.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Science","science",218,"2026-10-23T22:48:25.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Startups","startups",148,"2026-10-23T16:26:29.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Software","software",145,"2026-10-26T09:30:00.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"General","general",104,"2026-10-26T09:26:49.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]