California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots

SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

Gavin Newsom Signs Laws To Require Social Media Warning Labels, AI Chatbot Safeguards

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Monday that will require that platforms regularly display warning ...

Silverback AI Chatbot Introduces AI Agents to Advance Chatbot Automation

Silverback AI Chatbot has announced the release of its AI Agents feature, a new addition to the platform aimed at expanding how conversational systems can perform automated tasks and manage multi-step ...

Can AI Chatbots Realistically Increase Sales? Here’s What SMBs Need to Know

Cape Town, Western Cape / / August 29, 2025 / Mashcor Online (PTY)Ltd Targeted Google Query: Do AI chatbots increase sales?

Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a 'personalized AI companion'

Slack is turning its Slackbot into a full-fledged AI assistant. The redesigned bot will be able to do stuff like analyze data ...

New California law hopes to stop AI-assisted suicide among teens

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group that supports children and parents as they navigate media and technology, declared AI ...

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

Tech and legal experts say that law enforcement will inevitably use suspects' interactions with tools like ChatGPT to prove ...
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How An AI Chatbot Unlike Any Other Challenged My Swiftie Knowledge

Disagree Bot is an AI chatbot built by Brinnae Bent, AI and cybersecurity professor at Duke University and director of Duke's TRUST Lab. She built it as a class assignment for her students and let me ...