Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go.

The company wants to make books "impossible to ignore." The post AI Company Known for Teen Suicides Launches New Feature to ...

Character.ai is expanding beyond chatbot interactions and into narrative entertainment with the launch of “Books." ...

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous ...

In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters ...

In 2022, Character.AI founders launched an AI-powered platform for creating interactive characters. Despite massive growth, a ban on users under 18 was instituted in 2025 due to youth safety concerns.

The blue light of a phone screen casts a faint glow across Sarah’s face. It is well past midnight, but sleep is nowhere in ...

Megan Garcia stands next to a picture of her son Sewell Setzer III. Alphabet’s Google and AI startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Florida mother who alleged the startup’s chatbot ...

California health officials are warning young people and their families to take care, as Bay Area artificial intelligence company Character.AI bans the use of its chatbots by children as of Tuesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother’s lawsuit accusing an AI chatbot of causing her son psychological distress that led to his death by suicide in Florida ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

More teens are turning to AI companions for comfort, distraction, and a sense of connection. For some, that comfort seems to ...