Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of their chatbot usage to a parents’ email address. As outlined in an ...

This comes months after several families — including a Florida mom whose 14-year-old son died by suicide — sued startup Character.AI, claiming its chatbots harmed their children.

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 ...

A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists—was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform ...

Character.AI requires all users to be at least 13 years old. In the past year the company says it has made several attempts to protect its teen users, including introducing a dedicated model for ...

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 ...

He left the company in late 2021 to form AI chatbot startup Character.AI with De Freitas. The Silicon Valley-based company quickly grew to become one of the world's hottest AI startups—reaching ...

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 ...