NEWS/29 OCT

AI news for small business, Thursday, 29 October 2026

12 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

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New York signs a law making AI chatbots check ages and stop pretending to be a child's friend or partner

If a child in your life uses an AI chatbot, New York has just written down what those chatbots are no longer allowed to say to them.

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