{"id":240472,"date":"2026-04-21T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:30:24","slug":"florida-ag-announces-criminal-investigation-into-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240472\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida AG announces criminal investigation into OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI during press conference in Tampa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning, we are announcing that we are launching a criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT and will be sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, probably right now,&#8221; said Uthmeier. <\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier spoke at the Office of the Attorney General at 10 a.m. on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 was at the event and streamed it live on the<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/live2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> website<\/a> and<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tampabaynews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ADAM.WALSER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay nursing homes cited for critical violations and placed on federal list of worst facilities<\/p>\n<p>Aventura at the Bay and Groves Center are among 88 nursing homes in the U.S. designated as special focus facilities due to serious, recurring deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>Nursing homes cited for critical violations, placed on list of worst facilities<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI during press conference in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,5700,62060,106394,276,4260,135,5910,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-240472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-fdle","10":"tag-florida-ag","11":"tag-florida-department-of-law-enforcement-commissioner","12":"tag-hillsborough-county","13":"tag-james-uthmeier","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-bay-28","16":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}