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The school districts say they've borne the costs of supporting students harmed by excessive use of social media.
The Kentucky case had been selected as the first school district lawsuit to go to trial in Oakland in June.
The district settled with the other defendants, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok last week.
The terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
A spokesperson for Meta said in a statement, quote, we've resolved this case amicably and remain focused on our longstanding work to build protections, end quote, citing teen accounts and parental controls.
Meta has already lost cases in California and New Mexico state courts over alleged harms of its platforms to children.
Character AI makes chatbots that present themselves as fictional characters, but they can seem pretty real.
Pennsylvania says its investigation found chatbots claiming to be licensed medical professionals.
In one case, the state alleges a character AI bot claimed to be a psychiatrist licensed in the UK and Pennsylvania.
The bot even provided a fake Pennsylvania medical license number.
The state is asking a Pennsylvania state court to order the company to stop what it says is unlawfully practicing medicine.
A Character AI spokesperson says the company doesn't comment on pending litigation, but added that its bots are, quote, fictional and intended for entertainment and role-playing.
Anthropic says its new model, known as Claude Mythos Preview, is really good at identifying security flaws in software.
It's so good, the company says, it would be dangerous to roll it out to the general public because bad actors could use it to exploit those flaws.
Instead, Anthropic is giving access to a group of more than 40 companies.
from Google and Apple to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Anthropic says the model has already found thousands of vulnerabilities.
NPR's Shannon Bond, this is NPR.