( December 9, 2025, 21:13 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general wrote to 13 leading AI companies to warn that the states want "immediate action" over their concerns about "sycophantic" AI chatbots causing harm to users. The companies receiving the letter were Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Character Technologies, Google, Luka, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nomi AI, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Replika, and xAI. "We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write today to communicate our serious concerns about the rise in sycophantic and delusional outputs to users emanating from the generative artificial intelligence software ('GenAI') promoted and distributed by your companies, as well as the increasingly disturbing reports of AI interactions with children that indicate a need for much stronger child-safety and operational safeguards," they said.See attached letter....
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