Day: October 16, 2025

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a groundbreaking law regulating chatbots powered by artificial intelligence. The new legislation requires platforms to clearly notify users when they are interacting with a chatbot rather than a human. For minors, this notification must be displayed every three hours during use. Additionally, companies are mandated to implement protocols to prevent the dissemination of self-harming content and to refer users exhibiting suicidal thoughts to crisis service providers, Azernews reports.

Natural gas production also remains strong, totaling 38.2 billion cubic meters (bcm) in the first nine months of 2025. Shah Deniz continues to be the largest contributor with 20.9 bcm, followed by ACG at 10.2 bcm, SOCAR at 5.9 bcm, and Absheron at 1.2 bcm. Gas exports reached 18.3 bcm, with Europe receiving over half of these volumes (9.4 bcm), Turkiye 7.3 bcm (including 4.3 bcm via the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline – TANAP), and Georgia importing around 1.6 bcm.

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Meta Platforms Inc. announced on Tuesday that Instagram will introduce a default PG-13 movie rating for teenage accounts. According to the company, this feature will allow teen users to see content “similar to what they’d find in a PG-13 movie,” filtering out more mature or inappropriate material, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.