The suit alleges that the chatbot platform contributed to the suicide of her 14-year-old son. Megan Garcia filed the suit in October, claiming that her son, Sewell Setzer III, was emotionally manipulated by a Character.

Google reportedly faces a fresh Justice Department probe over whether it violated antitrust law through its partnership with artificial intelligence chatbot firm Character.AI.

Ever since a mourning mother, Megan Garcia, filed a lawsuit alleging that Character.AI's dangerous chatbots caused her son's suicide, Google has maintained that—so it could dodge claims that it had contributed to the platform's design and was unjustly enriched—it had nothing to do with C.AI's development.

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Follow our live coverage of Google's annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to Android, the Gemini chatbot, and its Android XR smart glasses.

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated an antitrust investigation against Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google over its agreement with AI-driven chatbot company Character.AI.

Alphabet's Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

In addition to touting Gemini 2.5 as a coding tool, Google just released a public beta for Jules, a “coding agent” that can work in the background fixing bugs and writing new features in your codebase.

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