Alphabet’s Google and AI startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Florida mother who ​alleged the startup's chatbot led to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, ‌representing one of the first U.

AI Overviews first appeared in Gmail last year to summarize email chains, and now it’s expanding to Gmail search. This is closer to the AI Overview experience to which you are accustomed in Google’s web search. You can enter a natural language search, and the robot churns through your messages to generate a response.

Google and Character.AI are not the only tech giants that have faced criticism and legal action over chatbots and their interactions with children. OpenAI has also made changes to its popular ChatGPT in the face of lawsuits over suicides and child harm.

Google tracks how users behave and only shows AI Overviews in Search when they actually add value, said Google VP Robby Stein.

Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Megan Garcia and Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas and Google submitted the joint legal filing, according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE. Details of the settlement agreement were not disclosed.

The terms of the settlement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, were not disclosed.

Microsoft is rolling out a new “Copilot Checkout” feature that lets shoppers complete purchases directly inside its AI chatbot, betting that its enterprise ties and retailer relationships can help it compete with OpenAI,