A judge is “not prepared” to say companion chatbots should receive First Amendment protection.

Megan Garcia alleges that her son Sewell Setzer III was 'manipulated into taking his own life' by Character.ai's AI-powered ...

Google reportedly faces a fresh Justice Department probe over whether it violated antitrust law through its partnership with ...

Teen’s mother claims son shot himself in the head in 2024 after becoming obsessed with software character powered by ...

A therapy chatbot, designed to please users, may inadvertently influence recovering addicts' decisions, potentially ...

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook ...

A Florida mother, Megan Garcia, is suing Google and AI startup Character.AI, claiming their chatbot played a role in her ...

Megan Garcia sued Character.ai and Google, claiming they were responsible for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III.

Alphabet's Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said ...

A judge ruled that the First Amendment does not protect AI chatbots, allowing a wrongful death lawsuit to go through after ...

The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company’s chatbots pushed a teenage boy to ...

The growing proliferation of AI-powered chatbots has led to debates around their social roles as friend, companion or work ...