California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill Monday that would have restricted children’s access to AI chatbots while signing another that places guardrails on how chatbots interact with kids and ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

After a massive lobbying push from tech companies, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Monday that would have changed the way youth can interact with artificial intelligence chatbots, which often ...

SB 243 institutes new safeguards on AI chatbots. SB 243 institutes new safeguards on AI chatbots. A bill attempting to regulate the ever-growing industry of companion AI chatbots is now law in ...

Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed Senate Bill 243 into law on Monday, establishing the first statewide legislation designed to safeguard children in their interactions with artificial ...

Newsom signed SB 243; chatbots must route users who mention self-harm to 988. AB 1064 faces slim odds after Newsom bypassed it for the narrower SB 243. Critics warn the 2027 reporting start and ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was federally charged for setting the blaze that eventually became the massive and deadly Palisades Fire, ...

The startup is poised to become a global leader in recycling rare earth magnets from old EVs, wind turbines, and more. Rare earth magnets are essential for clean energy, but only a tiny fraction of ...

Fabio Cortes, Gonzalo Fernandez Dionis, Yiran Li, Silvia Ramirez, and Xiaoxiao Zhang. "Recycling Risk: Synthetic Risk Transfers", IMF Working Papers 2025, 200 (2025 ...

If you've been to a medical appointment recently, you may have already interacted with AI. As you describe your symptoms to the doctor, they may ask your permission to use an "AI scribe" to convert ...

Meta Platforms META0.02%increase; green up pointing triangle will start using people’s conversations with its AI chatbot to help personalize ads and content, offering a glimpse of how the company ...

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to use ...