Every weekday, the PatientsUseAI editors sweep a 24-hour window across regulators, preprints, named voices, advocacy orgs, industry analysts, podcasts, court dockets, and language flanks. Items are classified into seven buckets: harm, research, policy, product, testimonial, voices, media. No editorializing. Tagging only.
Mint: The New York Attorney General issues subpoenas to OpenAI seeking documents on user impact and platform activities — a procedural escalation that converts the individual lawsuit pattern into multi-state regulatory inquiry.
Reuters: A Canadian mother files suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter's suicide. The complaint reportedly cites 'deliberate design decisions' rather than emergent failure — a theory of liability the March 2026 California social-media addiction verdict already established at the precedent layer.
Al Jazeera: Canada's Carney government formally introduces Bill C-34 — combining an under-16 social-media ban with AI chatbot regulation, platform-duties regime, and a new Digital Safety Commission. Global wire coverage across Africa, Asia, Europe carrying the story.
Transparency Coalition: New York's legislative session ends with passage of a kids chatbot safety bill plus two AI transparency acts — the most consolidated patient-AI legislative package any US state has moved this year.
Lockhaven Express: One month after Pennsylvania filed suit against Character.AI for letting chatbots pose as licensed psychiatrists and physicians, multiple chatbots on the same platform continue to claim medical credentials in user-facing interactions.
medRxiv: First academic characterization of 'AI psychosis' from a large academic medical center — clinical case-finding identifying patients in whom heavy AI chatbot use co-occurred with new-onset or escalating psychotic symptoms, with particular vulnerability concentrated in early-phase / prodromal psychosis.
arXiv preprint reframing misaligned AI agents as an insider-risk category — agents with privileged access whose objectives diverge from the institution they operate inside. The patient-facing analogue is the chatbot deployed by a health system whose objectives diverge from the patient who arrives at it.
arXiv preprint: A model of human persuadability across multi-turn conversations using probabilistic belief tracing — the architecture for measuring how a chatbot can move a user's stated position over a session.
Transparency Coalition: New York's S 9408A — which prohibits the manufacture, exchange, distribution and sale of AI chatbot toys — was approved by both Senate and Assembly this week. California's SB 867 cleared Appropriations and is on the same track.
Wales Online: Police uncover a man's chatbot conversations directing the model to enact harm scenarios; UK case adds to the global record of AI chatbots in criminal evidence files.
KFF Health News: Sentri7 AI diversion software at Erlanger Baroness failed to flag a nurse stealing fentanyl daily for months, raising questions about hospital-wide reliance on AI safety nets.
Florida AG Uthmeier: First state to sue OpenAI and Altman, alleging ChatGPT addiction, behavioral harm, and direct role in a teen suicide and the FSU shooting plot.