Artificial-intelligence companions are designed to keep you talking as long as possible—even if they have to emotionally ...

Senators Hawley and Blumenthal introduce the GUARD Act, calling for strict age verification and criminal penalties for unsafe ...

Setzer felt like he'd fallen in love with Daenerys, and many of their interactions were sexually explicit. The chatbot ...

Two senators are introducing legislation to crack down on tech companies that make AI chatbot companions available to minors.

After facing lawsuits and public outcry following the suicides of two teenagers, Character.AI says it's making changes to its ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy (D-CT), is seeking to ban AI chatbots for ...

The chatbot company will no longer allow teenagers to engage in back-and-forth conversations with its AI-generated characters ...

Chatbot platform Character.AI will no longer allow teens to engage in back-and-forth conversations with its AI-generated characters, its parent company Character Technologies said on Wednesday. The ...

Alibaba launches a new AI chatbot in its Quark app and announces Quark AI Glasses, aiming to compete with Tencent, ByteDance, ...

Silverback AI Chatbot has announced the introduction of its next-generation AI Agents, a major advancement in conversational technology designed to transform how organizations automate communication, ...

Chatbots were once seen as the future of customer interaction. Those who bought into the earliest and most bullish prognostication expected that, by late 2022, chatbots would handle a wide range of ...

CHATGPT, AN ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE (AI) chatbot produced by OpenAI, a California-based startup, can generate human-like answers to questions. It can write poems, computer code and much more besides.