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Florida's attorney general asked a state court on Sept. 28 to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent safety guardrails and to keep minors off ChatGPT; OpenAI cited its own training pause.

An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on a Medicare data portal in June; Canberra says it wasn't told until September and is now reviewing AI regulation.

Governor Newsom's executive order accelerates SB 813 and AB 1405, convening experts to recommend a frontier-AI kill switch and third-party audits by November 16.

Trump said he is forming an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, but gave no details on its structure or authority.

Anthropic's CEO published a three-step plan to slow AI development, winning qualified support from Sam Altman but public rejection from Trump, Beijing, Meta and Nvidia.

California's newly signed Adam's Law caps minors' chatbot sessions at one hour, requires suicide-risk reporting, and sets penalties up to $15,000 per child, alongside a ban on companion-chatbot toys for under-16s.

China's Supreme People's Court issued a 24-article opinion on handling AI-related civil disputes, setting rules on deepfakes, liability, and consumer protection.

NYC will disable AI in 38 school tech contracts and ban student-facing chatbots through 8th grade, in what Mayor Mamdani calls the nation's broadest school AI moratorium.

New federal complaints allege OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter's ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack, but executives overrode a referral to police.

The US urged G20 nations toward light-touch AI rules under a 'Carolina Principles' framework, as the EU pressed AI Act compliance checks on more than 30 companies.

HB26-1263 requires conversational AI operators to add self-harm protocols, age estimation, and content safeguards for minors, with the operator requirements becoming operative January 1, 2027.

China's Interim Measures for AI companion services took effect July 15, prompting ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to shut down persona chatbots and leaving users mourning lost digital partners.