California signed Adam's Law (Chapter 190, Statutes of 2026) to establish the first legal behavioral standards for AI agents interacting with children, barring chatbots from claiming sentience or simu…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan legislation that creates the nation's strongest companion chatbot regulations and bans addictive social media features such as autoplay and algorithm…
California lawmakers approved a sweeping set of AI chatbot safety requirements for children and teens, known as Adam's Law (SB 1119), sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or…
California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1119, known as Adam's Law, establishing first-in-the-nation safety requirements for AI chatbots used by minors, including age verification, limits on targeted a…
California lawmakers have sent Governor Gavin Newsom a package of 26 AI, privacy, and child safety bills, including AB 1709 to ban addictive features for users under 16 and SB 1119 (Adam's Law) to reg…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attempted to lobby California Gov. Gavin Newsom before the state legislature passed Senate Bill 1119, a kids' AI chatbot safety bill, on Monday. The bill, authored by state senat…
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature passed more than 20 bills to curtail AI and social media, including measures to ban addictive features for minors, require human instructors in the Calif…
A May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, and California lawmakers are advancing seven bills to regulate the facilities amid a lobbying push l…
The California Secretary of State's office said on August 21 that the Parents & Kids Safe AI Act ballot measure, backed by OpenAI and Common Sense Media, failed to qualify for the November ballot beca…
California is one step closer to banning AI chatbots from posing as therapists after Senate Bill 903 cleared the Assembly Appropriations Committee in a 13-0 vote on August 13. The bill, introduced by …
California lawmakers are pushing to ban AI from serving as a full-on therapist under Senate Bill 903, which would prohibit advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review for …
California lawmakers are advancing Senate Bill 903, introduced by Sen. Steve Padilla, which would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review of AI therapeutic decisio…
The California Senate approved legislation Thursday that would impose a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of AI-enabled toys with chatbot capabilities for children under 18. State Sen. Steve P…