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A mother’s lawsuit accusing an AI chatbot of causing her son psychological distress that led to his death by suicide in Florida nearly two years ago has been settled. The parties filed a notice of resolution in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, saying they reached a "mediated settlement in principle" to resolve all claims between Megan Garcia, Sewell Setzer Jr., and defendants Character Technologies Inc., co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana, and Go...