AI firm, Google to face teen suicide suit
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A judge is “not prepared” to say companion chatbots should receive First Amendment protection.
Ever since a mourning mother, Megan Garcia, filed a lawsuit alleging that Character.AI's dangerous chatbots caused her son's suicide, Google has maintained that—so it could dodge claims that it had contributed to the platform's design and was unjustly enriched—it had nothing to do with C.AI's development.
Google reportedly faces a fresh Justice Department probe over whether it violated antitrust law through its partnership with artificial intelligence chatbot firm Character.AI.
Just don’t confuse Deep Think with DeepMind or Astra with Aura.
Google became the gateway to the internet by perfecting its search engine. For two decades, it surfaced 10 blue links that gave people .
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's Gemini AI chatbot app has more than 400 million MAUs ahead of Google I/O 2025.
The company is rolling out a feature that will answer search queries in a chatbot-style conversation without the classic blue links.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now.