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

From blaming the victim to replying "I have no interest in your life" to suicidal thoughts, AI chatbots can respond unethically when used for therapy.

The AI Village—an experiment run by nonprofit Sage—set up models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI to collaborate and ...

Shanghai AI Lab researchers find that giving AI richer context—called “context engineering”—can make models smarter without retraining.

Character.AI has banned users under 18 from having open-ended conversations with its chatbots, following public outrage and lawsuits over several teens who died by suicide after prolonged ...

What is the future of artificial intelligence companions? Reporter Dana Gerber and editor Greg Huang share their thoughts.

A lonely Connecticut woman who grew up in an abusive household has built herself an entirely new, fictional family using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Lonnie DiNello’s journey […] ...

It was so much easier to have a conversation with a chatbot than a human being. But the more I talked to AI, the less I ...