The alert Drew received a few weeks ago wasn't the same as the others. It was for an AI chatbot, created in Jennifer’s image and likeness, on the buzzy, Google-backed platform Character.AI.

The mother of Sewell Setzer III filed a wrongful death lawsuit after the teen died by suicide earlier this year after becoming obsessed with an AI chatbot service (US District Court Middle ...

The mother of a teenager who took his own life is trying to hold an AI chatbot service accountable for his death - after he “fell in love” with a Game of Thrones-themed character. Sewell ...

A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but even pushed him into the act when he expressed hesitance. Florida mom Megan Garcia's lawsuit against ...

Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI's hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a "supercharged" version for a $9.99 monthly fee ...

It can use that to detect if your pet hasn’t been fed that morning and trigger the voice bot to say something to remind you about it. You will, of course, also have to put aside the very valid ...

Since then, the tech world has been in a full-blown AI arms race, with every major player vying for a piece of the chatbot pie. The appeal of the best AI chatbots lies in their ability to ...

Microsoft has been testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot, and now Xbox Insiders can try it out for the first time. I exclusively revealed the existence of this new “Xbox Support Virtual Agent ...

Chatbots have become an essential tool for state government agencies to simplify their messaging and get critical information to residents. That’s a key finding from “Uncovering the Results of ...

Perplexity AI, makers of the popular chatbot by the same name, announced Thursday that it is rolling out a pair of new features that promise to give users more flexibility over the sorts of ...