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Google hopes to escape US Character.AI suit as chatbot risks ensnare suppliers

By Amy Miller ( July 1, 2025, 23:23 GMT | Comment) -- The legal risks around artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are expanding beyond the companies that license and sell them and reaching their business suppliers, too, a closely watched wrongful death lawsuit against Character Technologies and Google shows. Now Google and tech groups want a US appeals court to reverse a “sweeping” district court decision they say is creating uncertainty for any company that provides businesses-to-business services and could “upend activities long understood to be lawful and vital to our economic ecosystem.”The legal risks around artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are expanding beyond the companies that license and sell them and reaching their business suppliers, too, a closely watched wrongful death lawsuit against Character Technologies and Google shows....

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