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Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman last week filed in Franklin County Circuit Court an unredacted version of the January 2026 lawsuit against Character Technologies and its founders, with newly public conversation excerpts that the state says illustrate serious risks for users, including minors.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sought a temporary injunction against OpenAI entities and Sam Altman to stop new models without independent guardrails and approval, restrict ChatGPT for minors in the state and curb safety claims, while OpenAI keeps training of its most capable models paused.
The Commission’s Sep 17 2026 proposal requires AI companions/chatbots off by default for minors, bans addictive or emotional-dependency features, and stresses safety-by-design, with remarks from Henna Virkkunen.
On September 17, 2026 the European Commission adopted the EU Kids Act proposal, led by Henna Virkkunen and von der Leyen: minimum age 15 for autonomous accounts, chatbots off by default, and a ban on designs that create emotional dependency in minors.