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OpenAI, Microsoft face suit over woman's murder by ChatGPT-using son

( December 11, 2025, 14:39 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The estate of Suzanne Adams sued OpenAI and Microsoft in California state court, alleging that ChatGPT validated her son's paranoia and delusions, eventually compelling him to murder her. Claims include product liability, negligence and wrongful death. “Over the course of months, ChatGPT pushed forward my father’s darkest delusions, and isolated him completely from the real world,” Adams' grandson Erik Soelberg said in a statement. “It put my grandmother at the heart of that delusional, artificial reality. These companies have to answer for their decisions that have changed my family forever.”Statement follows below. See attached file....

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