Are AI chatbots the new mafia? Mother sues Character.ai and Google for her son’s deathA Florida mother is suing Character.ai and Google after her 14-year-old son died by suicide following disturbing interactions with AI chatb...
26 May, 2025, 09.57 AM IST
Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over suicide of son, US court saysGoogle spokesperson Jose Castaneda said the company strongly disagrees with the decision. Castaneda also said that Google and Character.AI ...
22 May, 2025, 08.10 AM IST
Dire wolves are back, and Elon Musk just ordered the next extinct animal- A pet wooly mammothElon Musk has stirred the internet by requesting a miniature woolly mammoth as a pet, just as Colossal Biosciences revealed the world’s fir...
08 Apr, 2025, 01.05 PM IST
AI chatbot's SHOCKING advice to teen: Killing parents over restrictions is 'reasonable'. Case explainedA 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...
13 Dec, 2024, 08.13 PM IST
Facing teen suicide suits, Character. AI rolls out safety measuresIn a Florida lawsuit filed in October, a mother claimed the platform bears responsibility for her 14-year-old son's suicide. The teen, Sewe...
13 Dec, 2024, 10.07 AM IST
Our robot stories haven't prepared us for AIA Florida teenager who took his own life had a particularly intense relationship with a chatbot named Dany, after Daenerys Targaryen from "...
26 Oct, 2024, 08.14 AM IST
Florida teen dies by suicide after AI chatbot convinced him Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen loved himA Florida teenager, Sewell Setzer III, committed suicide after interacting with an AI chatbot named Daenerys Targaryen on Character.AI. The...
24 Oct, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
Mother sues AI chatbot company Character. AI, Google sued over son's suicideIn a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character. AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with "anthro...
24 Oct, 2024, 08.09 AM IST
Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringementThe lawsuit filed Monday in a federal court in San Francisco alleges that Anthropic's actions "have made a mockery of its lofty goals" by t...
20 Aug, 2024, 08.28 AM IST
Japan literary laureate unashamed about using ChatGPTRie Kudan, the winner of Japan's prestigious literary award, acknowledged that about 'five percent' of her novel was penned by ChatGPT, a g...
18 Jan, 2024, 12.41 PM IST
Microsoft, OpenAI hit with new lawsuit by authors over AI trainingOpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the compan...
06 Jan, 2024, 09.03 AM IST
Did a computer write this? Book industry grapples with AIFrom low-quality computer-written books flooding the market to potential copyright violations, publishing is the latest industry to feel th...
23 Oct, 2023, 09.40 AM IST
John Grisham, George RR Martin, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrightsThe lawsuit joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. There are similar law...
21 Sep, 2023, 09.26 AM IST
John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrightsThe proposed class-action lawsuit filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visu...
20 Sep, 2023, 09.18 PM IST
In the age of AI, tech's little guys need big friendsThe tech industry loves its garage startup stories. From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned in...
08 Jul, 2023, 04.42 PM IST
When AI came on too strong: Replika chatbot shares racy pictures, explicit texts to users looking for virtual companionshipSome even alleged the chatbot of sexual harassment.
13 Feb, 2023, 06.56 PM IST
Sexting chatbot ban points to looming battle over AI rulesExperts warn that there is plenty for regulators to be worried about, particularly when the bots get so good that it becomes impossible to ...
12 Feb, 2023, 09.27 AM IST