This week: New Jersey enacted the FAIR Rent Act, an AI-adjacent law that prohibits building owners from using algorithmic pricing systems to set rental fees in residential units. Also, lawmakers began gathering in annual conferences to swap ideas and compare notes.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been a vocal advocate for the social media restrictions, which will affect kids under the age of 15 starting in September. Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the U.K. are considering similar measures.

With tech companies unwilling to heed calls for safety testing and responsible product design, state legislators have stepped up to set baseline standards. We have all the new chatbot laws listed state by state.

This week: Massachusetts lawmakers moved forward with bills that would protect kids from addictive social media algorithms and enact a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools. In Hawaii, Gov. Josh Green signed two AI bills into law, and Gov. Pritzker did the same in Illinois.

Massachusetts lawmakers are moving two bills concerning kids, addictive algorithms, and the use of digital devices at school.

This week: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state’s landmark AI Safety Measures Act into law. Sacramento went quiet as California legislators slipped out of town for their annual summer recess. Meanwhile in Boston, legislators spent much of the past week debating the sticking points of Massachusetts’ big privacy protection bill.

The law sets a strong new standard for regulating the largest and costliest AI models, known as frontier models. Illinois becomes the first state to require independent third-party safety audits with regular transparency reports.

This week: California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a new law requiring public school teachers to be human, while New Jersey legislators passed a Kids Code Act.

C‍alifornia’s SB 1119 and AB 2023 would build on existing state law to enhance protections for kids and parents interacting with AI chatbots.

The state’s new ‘synthetic performer law’ requires advertisers to disclose the use of AI in any ad that runs in New York.

As a parent it’s hard to know how to handle a child’s interactions with chatbots. We created this short video with basic facts and helpful tools.

This week: Arizona Gov. Hobbs vetoed all three AI bills passed by the legislature, while Rhode Island Gov. McKee signed a chatbot therapy ban into law.

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee signed three new AI-related measures into law earlier this week, including a therapy chatbot ban and a chatbot self-harm safety measure.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced the new policy late last week. In a related move, his government will increase funding for the use of more books in classrooms, instead of computer tablets. “The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write, and do mathematics,” Støre said.

We’re keeping an eye on five AI bills that are moving forward in Harrisburg, including a ban on nudification apps, an AI toy moratorium, a chatbot safety bill, and an AI disclosure proposal.

Every Friday, TCAI brings you the nation’s most comprehensive update of AI bills moving through state legislatures. This week: Arizona adjourned after passing three AI bills, California’s 30 bills continued to move through second-chamber committees, and Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a therapy chatbot ban into law.

Gaia Bernstein, a law professor and expert on addictive technologies, argues that chatbots are a public health problem, especially for children, and should be regulated like medical devices.

A regional court in Germany has found Google liable for harmful hallucinations produced by its ‘AI overview’ product. The court laid out precisely why the traditional liability shield for search engines does not hold for AI-produced material. We have analysis and the full translated court decision.

Every Friday, TCAI brings you the nation’s most comprehensive update of AI bills moving through state legislatures. This week: New York legislators wrapped up their 2026 session after sending seven AI-related bills to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Rhode Island passed a therapy chatbot ban, while Colorado Gov. Jared Polis exercised his veto power on a bill that would have prohibited the use of algorithmic pricing.

With schools letting out across the country, this is a good time for parents to check up on their kids’ digital safety. Here’s a five-step plan to set your family up for a happy and healthy summer.