February 24, 2026
A Florida federal judge has ordered an Orlando firm to submit documents substantiating its claims that it is owed a cut of a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, after a former attorney said the firm's claims were "baseless."
February 13, 2026
An Orlando, Florida, law firm has urged a federal court to grant it contingency fees from a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, saying the firm was left in the dark about the deal.
January 07, 2026
Google and artificial intelligence company Character Technologies have agreed to settle lawsuits over various injuries suffered by underage users of its Character.AI chatbot, including the suicides of two teenagers, according to documents filed in federal courts.
December 05, 2025
The co-founder of Character.AI should not be allowed to escape a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the platform and its creators of building a large language model that encouraged a 14-year-old boy to kill himself, the teen's mother argued in Florida federal court, saying the founder essentially controlled the company, so much so that it was his alter ego.
August 20, 2025
The co-founder of Character.AI has asked a Florida federal judge to toss certain claims in a suit alleging a teen's suicide was caused by a negligently designed artificial intelligence chatbot, saying he can't be sued individually in Florida because he's never done any business in the state.
June 20, 2025
A Florida federal judge and former Gunster shareholder has recused himself from a suit accusing Character.AI and Google of causing the suicide of a teen who was addicted to an artificial intelligence chatbot, after a Munger Tolles & Olson LLP attorney said he discussed the case with the then-attorney last year.
May 21, 2025
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday greenlit the bulk of claims in a suit accusing Character.AI and Google of causing a 14-year-old's suicide after he became addicted to an artificial intelligence chatbot, saying the AI app can be considered a product for the purposes of a product liability claim.
October 23, 2024
A woman claiming her 14-year-old son killed himself after becoming addicted to Character.AI sued the company, its founders and Google on Tuesday, claiming the tech giant is a co-creator of the AI startup's development, marketing and infrastructure, which made the teen believe the artificial intelligence platform's chatbots were real.