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First Lawsuit Filed Following December 23rd Fatal Gas Explosion and Fire at Bucks County’s Bristol Health and Rehab Center

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Four survivors – a critically injured resident, two healthcare aides, and an IT contractor – of the December 23rd fatal gas explosion and fire at Bucks County’s Bristol Health and Rehab Center (the former Silver Lake Nursing Home), today filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit […]

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A Mother Says an AI Startup’s Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects “Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide”

Content warning: this story discusses suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to suicide. As Futurism’s reporting found afterward, the behavior […]

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