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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 1159 into law this week, dramatically increasing the legal consequences for possessing child-like sex dolls in Florida — a move that sets a new national benchmark for how U.S. states handle this offense.

From CES 2026's most talked-about booth to open-source robotics in Shenzhen, a new generation of AI-powered sex dolls is moving the market from silicone craftsmanship to emotional computing.

From a Utah landfill discovery to a sweeping EU Digital Services Act investigation, law enforcement agencies and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are closing in on the unregulated edges of the sex doll industry.

A Paris appeals court has definitively rejected the French government's bid to shut down Shein's marketplace, even as a sweeping EU investigation under the Digital Services Act threatens the e-commerce giant with potentially billions in fines.