48-year-old Noam Shazeer, a co-founder of Character.AI, has recently made headlines after a teenager died by suicide after reportedly being obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI. The teen's ...
A lawsuit against an AI company raises concerns about chatbots' impact on mental health, addiction risks, and ethical issues, ...
Noam Shazeer, an AI pioneer, returns to Google as VP after the company acquires Character.AI for $2.7 billion. This move highlights Google's aggressive strategy to acquire top AI talent and ...
A mother of a Florida teen Sewell Setzer is suing the makers of Character.AI, a chatbot she claims encouraged her son’s death.
Google acquired some of Character.AI's talent and licensed its technology. Months later, it has been named in a lawsuit over ...
Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
A Florida mom has targeted custom AI chatbot platform Character.AI and Google in a lawsuit over her son's death ...
A teen committed suicide after spending too much time chatting to a Character.AI persona, and the family is now suing the AI ...
Character.AI's founders are Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, two ex-Googlers who departed the Silicon Valley giant back in 2021, and have since chalked their exit up to — get this — too ...
Megan Garcia said her son chatted continuously with the bots provided by Character.ai in the months before his death on ...
An attorney said that if a real adult had interacted with the teen like a chatbot on Character.AI had, they would "be in jail ...