Technology & Science
UK Moves to Fold AI Chatbots into Online Safety Act and Weigh Under-16 Social-Media Ban
On 16 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government will amend the Crime & Policing Bill to place all AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act while opening a three-month consultation in March on an Australian-style social-media ban for under-16s and other design-feature curbs, promising action "within months, not years."