“On 13 May 2025 the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered OpenAI to preserve and segregate every chat record that would normally be deleted. The directive stands until the court decides otherwise. Surveys show plenty of practitioners have preferred the public version of ChatGPT to enterprise legal-AI tools, counting on auto-deletion to keep the risk down. This ruling shows a court can tell an AI provider to keep data you assumed had vanished, even if the order is later narrowed or overturned…”