OpenAI said on August 31, 2026, that it supports California Senate Bill 1119, legislation that would impose safety obligations on operators of companion chatbots used by children, and the company urged Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the measure into law. Ann O’Leary, OpenAI’s vice president of global policy, announced the position in a company post, saying the support builds on principles for teen safety that co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman outlined the previous year. “In the absence…