Character.AI, the chatbot maker whose founders Google hired as part of a $2.7 billion deal last August, has in recent weeks ...

Google is distancing itself from Character.AI amid piling controversy. But in 2023, Character.AI was named Google Play's "best" AI app.

These are not AI for good, these are AI for profit,” a source said of chatbots used by kids and teens for therapy, friendship ...

Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million ...

Character.AI is a particularly obvious legal target because of its indirect connections to a major tech company like Google, its popularity with teenagers, and its relatively permissive design.

Character.AI Inc., a well-funded startup with a chatbot service for consumers, today announced that its founders will join Google LLC. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the ...

Lawsuit: Chatbot that allegedly caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

Character.AI is starting a new chapter after its $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which involved CEO Noam Shazeer returning to the search giant. It hired Erin Teague as a chief product ...

Google and Apple requested stricter filters for the Character.ai app for being inappropriate for teens In recent years, users have been complaining about increasingly strong censorship filters ...

Google's acquihire deal with Character AI is the third for Big Tech in six months, after Microsoft's agreement with Inflection and Amazon's deal with Adept.