California Democrats have passed more than two dozen bills in the state legislature to control AI and regulate the use of social media products by minors, NBC News reports. One bill would prohibit the social media companies from providing “addictive features” like autoplaying videos to people under 16 years of age. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom must decide which ones he will sign before the end of the month. 

Korea-based Samsung has been hit with a false-advertising lawsuit by TCL, a Chinese consumer electronics company, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The suit alleges that Samsung “took a cheap, non-Mini LED model from a recycled product line and peddled it to the public as a 'supreme' Mini LED model at an attractive price point," TCL said. Samsung says it will defend itself vigorously. 

Tech companies and other types of advertisers are diligently working to include a human element in their ads. For instance, Anthropic launched an ad for Claude earlier this summer. It asked the question, “What if we started to be more human again?” Meta is focusing people “because while technology will change, our intention behind it never will.” The public is worried about data centers, and the tech industry is using marketing to persuade them.

Three podcast and audio industry veterans— Andy Goldsmith, Mike Wooller and Craig Eastwood— have launched Everywhere, a new company that plans to sell audiences across podcasts, video, social media and other platforms, Podcast News Daily reports. The company, which is based in London, seeks to serve as the exclusive commercial partner for creators and content publishers. The founders have worked for companies like Acast, Audioboom, the BBC and Adelicious.