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 ...

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.

And earlier this month, in December, a second lawsuit filed on behalf of two families in Texas accused Character.AI and ...

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 ...