OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things
Frank Landymore
created: Nov. 17, 2025, 5:43 p.m. | updated: Nov. 27, 2025, 4:38 p.m.
“I can confirm we’ve suspended this developer for violating our policies,” an OpenAI spokesperson told PIRG in an emailed statement.
But AI toys are still practically unregulated, and there are plenty you can still buy today,” report coauthor RJ Cross, director of PIRG’s Our Online Life Program, said in a new statement.
This summer, OpenAI announced that it would be working with Mattel on a new line of toys, a high profile collaboration that propel AI toys into the mainstream.
But what about all the other AI toymakers out there, big and small, piggybacking off the success of OpenAI’s tech?
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