Like many overwhelmingly shy kids with a lazy eye and an overactive imagination, I had a pretend friend growing up. Her name was Fifi. She was everything I wasn’t at age 6: brave, talkative, wildly ...

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 company ...

Genies and the NBPA partner to create AI avatars of NBA players for games, apps, and fan chat, extending licensed athlete ...

There are a lot of AI chatbots out there, but Character.AI is an artificial intelligence chatbot with a difference. Unlike traditional chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, which are primarily for ...

Welcome to the “Tillyverse” — the digital world of controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood that its creator says will allow AI characters to collaborate and build artificial acting careers ...

Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on children. The company is facing several lawsuits over child ...

Tilly Norwood’s creator is launching the “Tillyverse” and hiring ex-Prime Video exec Mark Whelan to scale AI characters and digital IP.

Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform. The games are ...

Character.AI said it will soon shut off the ability for minors to have free-ranging conversations, including romantic dialogues, with the startup's AI chatbots. Starting Wednesday, the company will ...

Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Character.AI — the Google-backed AI chatbot company currently facing two separate ...

What if you could design a character so lifelike, so consistent, that it feels like they could step off the screen and into the real world? In an era where AI-generated avatars are reshaping ...