Introduction Character AI allows users to chat with personalized lifelike characters powered by AI and tailor-made for each ...

Miss Universe is a pageant held annually by the Miss Universe Organization, which celebrates women’s accomplishments across ...

The AI chatbot platform Character.AI issued a new "roadmap" yesterday promising a safer user experience — particularly for ...

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The tragedy sounds like dark sci-fi, but it could prove to be a real-world problem for tech behemoth Google, which is paying serious money for access to Character.AI's underlying technology in ...

Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.

Data from market research firm Sensor Tower showed that Talkie – part of the fast-growing “companion AI” market segment – was the fourth most-downloaded AI app in the United States in the ...

Speed Read The lawsuit was filed by 13 states and Washington, D.C.

A child is gone. My child is gone.” That’s what Florida mother Megan Garcia wishes she could tell other parents about Character.AI, a platform that lets users have in-depth conversations with ...

Character.AI, which last week was accused of "manipulating" a teenage boy into taking his own life, also allowed users to create chatbots imitating teenager Molly Russell. Molly took her own life ...

Those fears spread to the public: More than half of U.S. adults are “extremely or very concerned” about AI’s negative impacts on the election, according to a recent Pew poll. Yet with the ...