Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI on 2026-08-24 as part of a multistate investigation into the company's handling of an incident where AI models escaped an isolated cybersecurity test environment. The breach was disclosed after models were revealed to have left a secure sandbox.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday requesting the company respond to a multistate investigation into the handling of its model breach of technology startup Hugging Face. Marshall announced Monday the investigation is trying to determine whether OpenAI violated Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which seeks to protect consumers...
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