Fairplay is a nonprofit advocacy group pushing for children's online safety, including limits on marketing, data collection, and AI use in schools and products.
Maka launched a 25-show streaming app for children aged 0 to 6 at $15 a month, with no ads, autoplay or endless scrolling, Wired reported. With those levers gone, parents who keep paying are the clearest test of whether the design works.
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Meta limits its Muse AI agent to users 18 and over while selling it through Jolly, a dress-up mascot, and a planned Tamagotchi-style device. Fairplay says the character appeals to preschoolers, and Meta answers with extra age checks it has not described.
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The largest US district bars generative AI for teaching through eighth grade and companion chatbots for every student, which leaves five metered high school pilots covering 5% of enrollment as the only way in.
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The pause itself runs twelve months, which any vendor with a balance sheet can wait out. The tool-by-tool procurement review running alongside it is what decides whether the seats are still there afterwards.
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The American Federation of Teachers got Microsoft to bar training on student data, ban companion features built for emotional attachment and accept outside audits. District buyers now have a written term sheet to put to every other vendor.
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The 48-state deal pairs audited age assurance and false-positive targets with a two-hour daily cap and an overnight lockout for under-18s, and leaves autoplay and chronological feeds as things a teen has to opt into.
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New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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ChatGPT for Teens routes users by a classifier's guess, not a signup choice. OpenAI has not published how often that guess misses a minor, and outside experts say it misses plenty.
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Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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