Character.AI has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas by two families after a chatbot suggested a boy should kill his parents.

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized ...

Two families in Texas are suing the startup Character.AI and its financial backer Google, alleging that the platform's AI characters sexually and emotionally abused their school-aged children ...

A new AI ‘reasoning’ model called “Gemini” allows users to view the AI’s thought process as it answers questions.

In the face of piling controversy — and a second lawsuit concerning the welfare of children — Google has taken pains to ...

Google is releasing a new open model family, PaliGemma 2. Experts are concerned about its emotion recognition capabilities.

or a child’s temporary tattoo of a leaf. “The whole point is that it is just a single photo,” Mohandas says. He hopes the website prompts people to imagine how much Google—or any AI ...

Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Two families in Texas are suing the startup Character.AI and its financial ...