Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI ...

Within two days of launching its AI companions in July 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are ...

Character.AI has announced plans to prevent teen users from open-ended interactions withartificial intelligence chatbots on its platform. Some of the AI companion chatbots are modeled after real ...

A lawsuit filed by the family of Jonathan Gavalas alleges Google's AI encouraged harmful behavior that posed a risk to public ...

In response to growing public concern, Character.ai is banning users under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations. The company will add age verification and create an AI Safety Lab as well. The move ...

It shouldn’t take tragedy to make technology companies act responsibly. Yet that’s what it took for Character.AI, a fast-growing and popular artificial intelligence chatbot company to finally ban ...

The GUARD Act—introduced in Congress by Senators Josh Hawley and ​​Richard Blumenthal—aims to keep minors off chatbots such ...

Parents in multiple states agreed to settle lawsuits against AI startup Character.ai and Google which alleged their children harmed or killed themselves after using the company’s chatbots, according ...