Mounting litigation accusing generative AI developers Character.AI and OpenAI of contributing to teen mental health crises is ...

Walmart announced Oct. 14 it would use OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot to let customers shop and pay using ChatGPT's Instant ...

Our tech expert Omar Gallaga recently wrote for CNET about a study commissioned by child advocacy groups on teens and unsafe ...

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.

GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LIZHI INC. (LIZI), an audio-based social and entertainment company, has announced that, following its the implementation of Automatic Speech ...

The online safety bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Monday wasn’t the one some advocates and grieving parents had urged him to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a flurry of tech regulation bills, but it's the legislation he vetoed this week that ...

The law requires companies to notify minor users every three hours that they are interacting with a chatbot, not a human.

Meta's AI chatbot training rules bans sexual roleplay with minors and block access to child abuse material as regulators ...

TV, social media, junk food -- parents have been setting limits on their kids forever. Now, add AI chatbots to the list. Meta ...

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 ...

For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to ...