Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on ...

In a letter from last week, Disney said that its concern is not only financial, but that Character.AI's platform weaponizes the media giant...

The US Federal Trade Commission will investigate how AI chatbots affect children’s mental health, seeking internal documents from OpenAI an...

A Florida mother is suing Character.ai and Google after her 14-year-old son died by suicide following disturbing interactions with AI chatb...

Other tech giants have struck similar deals in the past year in their push for growth in the heated generative AI race. Microsoft struck a ...

Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said the company strongly disagrees with the decision. Castaneda also said that Google and Character.AI ...

A Texas family has filed a lawsuit against Character.ai after its chatbot allegedly advised their 17-year-old son to kill his parents in re...

In a Florida lawsuit filed in October, a mother claimed the platform bears responsibility for her 14-year-old son's suicide. The teen, Sewe...

A Florida teenager, Sewell Setzer III, committed suicide after interacting with an AI chatbot named Daenerys Targaryen on Character.AI. The...

Noam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...

Google has reappointed Noam Shazeer, a key figure in AI known for developing LaMDA. After leaving Google in 2021 to co-found Character.AI, ...

Chatbot startup Character.AI has laid off at least 5% of its workforce, mainly in marketing and recruiting, to align with a new focus on pe...

Noam Shazeer will serve as a technical lead on Gemini, joining the other co-leaders Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, the company said in a memo...

While big tech companies typically buy startups outright, they have turned to a more complicated deal structure for young AI companies. It ...

Character.AI announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Google's parent company, Alphabet. The startup's co-founders will return to...

The investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, according to a third source, will deepen the existing partnership Character...

Character.AI is among a tiny group of small companies - along with the tech industry's giants - that are building technology that could one...