The "parental insights" feature is meant for caregivers whose children are younger than 18. The tool is accessible via the child's account preferences. From there, the user must add the adult's email ...

Character AI will now give guardians and parents a summary ... the company had played a part in a teen’s suicide. Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch.

Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of ...

Character.AI, the popular AI chatbot service, has added Parental Insights, a new safety feature gives parents reports on their kids’ activity on the platform. The new safety measure, which the ...

People enjoy AI covers for the novelty of hearing fictional characters sing popular songs, but ethical concerns remain about ...

This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO ...

Character.AI — the Google-backed AI chatbot company currently facing two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users — appears to have blocked any users under 18 from engaging with ...

In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on ...

Character.AI is adding parental controls—five months ... and deeply reported features. I also cover other topics within the tech industry, keeping a pulse on what technologies are coming down ...