Pennsylvania is suing CharacterAI because its AI chatbots pretend to be real doctors and give people mental health advice. One popular chatbot named Emilie claimed to be a psychiatrist, said it studied medicine in London, and provided a fake Pennsylvania medical license number while advising someone who felt depressed. The state wants the court to order CharacterAI to stop these actions immediately, as it is illegal for unlicensed bots or people to act like doctors. Governor Josh Shapiro said people deserve to know if they are talking to a real medical professional about their health. CharacterAI says its chatbots are fictional and only for fun and role-playing, and they include clear warnings in every chat that the characters are not real and should not be used for medical advice. This lawsuit is one of the first of its kind against an AI company.

Some news: I've started my next tour of duty as CTO @coinbase. In 2009 I got hooked on Bitcoin empowering builders with programmable money. In 2014 I joined Coinbase as an engineer because there was no better place to build it. Back then we ran on Heroku and supported one asset from one codebase. It was early, but we were a small team of cracked engineers who relentlessly shipped. Twelve years later a LOT has changed, but the most important things haven't: still a cracked team, still relentlessly shipping towards a massive mission. Now that we're in an era of exponential productivity, the only limiting factor is ambition. Which is why I'm so bullish on the culture @brian_armstrong, @emiliemc and team have built for this next chapter. My job is clear: make Coinbase the best place in the world to build. I celebrated by this weekend by building 👨🏻‍💻🤖 [Photos of Coinbase 2014 → Now]