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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1979 and SB 503 on 09-30, laws that bar health facilities, clinics and physician offices from using AI to independently perform clinical functions that require a professional license and that require developers and users of AI clinical decision-support tools to reduce known bias. 2026-09-30
Governor Newsom vetoed SB 903 on 09-30, Senator Steve Padilla's bill to bar companion chatbots from providing psychotherapy and to limit licensed professionals' use of AI in therapy, calling it overly broad. 2026-09-30
Governor Newsom vetoed AB 2575 on 09-30, Assemblymember Liz Ortega's bill to let clinicians override AI clinical-decision-support output and bar employers from retaliating against them. 2026-09-30
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on 09-29 that Parliament will address AI safety in its fall sitting after media reports that OpenAI's ChatGPT coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter, without saying whether he meant the government's already-proposed digital safety bill or separate legislation. 2026-09-29
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state judge on 09-28 for a temporary injunction barring OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," from advertising it as safe, and from developing new models without third-party-approved safety guardrails. 2026-09-28
OpenAI asked a federal court on Friday 09-25 to dismiss the lawsuit by the family of Tiru Chabba, killed in the April 2025 Florida State University shooting, arguing that ChatGPT supplied only factual, public information and that holding it liable would violate free-speech rights. 2026-09-28

Summary

State and federal scrutiny of AI mental-health products intensified this week as Maine's AI-therapy law took effect and new research flagged clinical failures.

Maine's AI-therapy statute took effect at midnight on July 28, the first state law of its kind to actually bind.
xAI sued Minnesota's attorney general on July 28 to block the state's law banning "nudify" apps.
New research reported on July 27 found AI models underperform or mislead across most psychiatric conditions studied.
Reuters reported on July 27 that state attorneys general are applying traditional consumer-protection frameworks to AI business practices.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health reached general availability for all US users 18 and over on July 24.

Whether more states follow Maine's binding AI-therapy law, and whether any pending wrongful-death suit produces the first real liability ruling, would settle how this reckoning resolves.

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