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  1. New: a side-by-side comparison of Character.AI alternatives (age rules, age checks, teen limits, sexual content, training on chats, parental controls and account deletion, from each company's own pages), with a CSV download. New guides: ChatGPT adult mode, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), the Colorado AI Act, and whether Kindroid and Joyland AI are safe. The Character.AI age verification guide was re-checked against Character.AI's pages.
  2. Character.AI bankruptcy: Law360 reported that the judge approved the bidding procedures at the October 30 hearing; the written order is not yet on the docket. The guide to whether Character.AI is shutting down now lists the revised sale schedule (bids due November 20, auction November 23, sale hearing November 24, sale objections due November 13) and cites the states' and U.S. Trustee's objections directly.
  3. State pages now list the multistate actions each attorney general joined, the state's general consumer protection law and comprehensive privacy law where it has one, its 2027 legislative session date, and chatbot bills that were introduced but stalled. Pages for states without a chatbot law are now open to search engines.
  4. Added a 2027 chatbot bills tracker: bills filed for 2027, bills still pending from 2026, and when legislatures convene.
  5. Federal page: noted the FTC investigation of AI companies that the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2026.
  6. Added Texas v. OpenAI, the Texas attorney general's October 23, 2026 suit over ChatGPT, and updated the ChatGPT guides to ten state suits.
  7. Added guides on whether Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Snapchat's My AI are safe, whether Character.AI is safe for kids, DeepSeek bans by state, and how to delete Replika, Talkie and Janitor AI accounts.
  8. Replika and Talkie guides: updated to Replika's October 28, 2026 privacy policy (age checks, retention) and to the age assurance and parental controls Apple's App Store lists for SUBSUP's Talkie Lab app.
  9. Added a chatbot compliance checklist: each duty in the enacted state chatbot laws, law by law, with the section to read and when it applies, a state filter and a CSV download.
  10. Character.AI bankruptcy: added a reported October 23 objection by a group of states to the proposed sale procedures. The October 30 hearing on those procedures is unchanged as far as we found.
  11. Home page: Plate I, the painted chart of each state's chatbot-law duties, is back under the map as a square grid rather than a map shape. It is redrawn from the records on every update.
  12. Home page: the Plate I artwork is replaced by a guide to what the laws require, with each duty, the states that impose it and a link to that view of the map. Share images now show the state map, and the press page offers the map as a downloadable image.
  13. Added guides on whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, OurDream AI, Linky AI and Sakura AI are safe, and how-to guides on deleting ChatGPT history, turning off Meta AI and removing My AI on Snapchat.
  14. Reorganized the site menus: Laws and Guides now open menus grouped by topic, News is in the main menu, and the footer is shorter.
  15. Correction. Meta AI, Nomi and Replika guides: the August 25, 2025 letter from 44 attorneys general was co-led by Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, not led by Tennessee alone.
  16. Added guides on whether Candy AI, CrushOn AI and SpicyChat are safe: age rules and checks, content rules, what happens to chats, refunds and which chatbot laws may apply.
  17. Added guides on ChatGPT lawsuits, Character.AI lawsuits, whether ChatGPT is safe for kids (age rules and parental controls), whether Grok is safe and whether Chai is safe, plus an AI chatbot regulation news page with an RSS feed.
  18. Correction. Florida v. OpenAI: the federal removal docket is S.D. Fla. No. 2:26-cv-14238, not 2:26-cv-14237, which shows no entries. Added Florida's July 10, 2026 motion to remand and the court's August 23, 2026 order pausing OpenAI's response deadline.
  19. Added Illinois SB 317, the Consumer Artificial Intelligence Notice Act, which passed the Senate 56-1 on May 21, 2026 and would require customer service chatbots to say they are automated. It is in the House Rules Committee.
  20. Government action pages now name companies as defendants or recipients rather than as parties that must comply, quote agencies' press-release headlines only with attribution, and carry an allegations notice. Share images and embeds follow the same rules.
  21. Added terms of use, a privacy notice, an accessibility statement and a corrections policy. Pages that discuss suicide or self-harm now show the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
  22. Added nine guides: is Janitor AI safe, is PolyBuzz safe, is Talkie AI safe, is Replika safe, is Nomi AI safe, is Meta AI safe, can Character.AI see your chats, how to delete a Character.AI account, and app store accountability acts in Texas, Utah, Louisiana and California.
  23. Added federal bills H.R. 10719, H.R. 9619 and S. 5117, Delaware HB 306, and the 2025 letter from 42 attorneys general to AI companies on sycophantic and delusional outputs.
  24. Added Kansas v. OpenAI (Shawnee County District Court, filed October 14, 2026) and updated the Florida, West Virginia and Montana suits against OpenAI with court, case numbers and claims from the filed complaints.
  25. Pending bills now show the date they die if not passed: federal bills January 3, 2027; Illinois January 13, 2027; Michigan December 31, 2026; Pennsylvania November 30, 2026.
  26. Colorado SB 24-205: added the federal court's stay of enforcement in xAI v. Weiser; HB 26-1263 rulemaking hearing set for October 26, 2026.
  27. Correction. The 2025 attorneys general letter on chatbots and children was co-led by Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, not Tennessee alone, and was signed by 44 attorneys general including two territories.
  28. Correction. Re-verified enacted laws against official sources and corrected citations or details for Oregon HB 2748, New York A 10008, Vermont H 816, Washington HB 2225, New Hampshire HB 143, Texas HB 149, Maine LD 1727 and Georgia SB 540.
  29. Utah v. Snap: Snap's federal suit against the state was dismissed without prejudice on March 24, 2026; the state case continues. Kentucky v. Character Technologies: added the case number and named defendants.
  30. Added guides on Character.AI's bankruptcy and sale and on Character.AI safety; added Florida's joinder to the attorneys general notice in the Character.AI bankruptcy.
  31. Added guides on Character.AI age verification, ChatGPT age verification and adult mode, and California's age verification law (AB 1043), plus a questions section on each law page.
  32. Added Idaho S 1297, the Conversational AI Safety Act (Session Law Chapter 249), which takes effect July 1, 2027.
  33. Chatbot Laws launched with verified records of U.S. chatbot laws, bills and enforcement actions.