When Noam Shazeer is thinking, he puts his face in his hands, and goes somewhere else. Not literally, of course. He’s still across from me, in a Character.AI conference room that will later host ...

As part of the deal, Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas will return to Google, according to a Friday blog post by the Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup. Shazeer ...

Two senators sent a letter to AI companion companies, including Character.AI and Replika, demanding information about safety ...

The whole situation also highlights Google's weird position in the scandal. Character.AI actually has its roots at Google: the company's cofounders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, worked together ...

Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says certain forms of “reasoning” AI models could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and ...

Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says certain forms of “reasoning” AI models could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and ...