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 ...
Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are ...
Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home after her parents say she developed an addiction to a popular AI chatbot platform called Character AI. Parents Cynthia ...
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 ...
On the Friday, November 14, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A grieving mother says an AI chatbot manipulated her 14-year-old son — and she’s now suing the company behind it, Character AI. USA ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill ...
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 ...