The Florida Attorney General's second criminal probe of OpenAI — the one tied to a University of South Florida student case and the subpoenas reaching back to March 2024 — has a subpoena-enforcement deadline pending in state court this week. The paper reported Friday that the probe extended to the second case, with the discovery window stretched into a period predating ChatGPT's enterprise tier. The next docket event is whether OpenAI moves to quash, narrow, or comply. [1]

The architecture matters. A state AG criminal probe operates on different rules than a federal civil docket; subpoena-enforcement orders in Florida circuit court are heard on rocket-docket timelines, and a refusal to comply triggers contempt, not summary judgment. OpenAI's Florida counsel filed a notice of appearance Wednesday but no protective-order motion is yet on the docket. [2]

The cross-thread is the Tumbler Ridge complaint that named the twelve-engineer safety team in pleading. Two state criminal probes, one federal class-action, and a $1 billion product-liability complaint all running into the Cerebras roadshow opening Monday — the IPO bookbuild and the discovery calendar on the same week is the fact pattern Theo Kaplan's tech beat is calling the dockets-and-prosecutions environment. [3]

The watch this week: subpoena enforcement order on the USF case; any Florida AG public statement; OpenAI's first substantive filing. The state-AG criminal lane is the one that does not depend on private-bar litigation funding. It runs on whatever the AG decides it runs on. [4]

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York