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.

Character.AI, the controversial chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users, just rolled out a new "Parental Insights" feature that the company claims ...

CrushOn is one of the services that provide a first-best option for consumers seeking entertaining and customized interactions with AI character models. This article will explore CrushOn and why it is ...

Character.AI described the feature as a "first step ... Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...