Like many overwhelmingly shy kids with a lazy eye and an overactive imagination, I had a pretend friend growing up. Her name was Fifi. She was everything I wasn’t at age 6: brave, talkative, wildly ...

AI companies aren't just bombarding social media feeds with 'slop'; they're now making platforms of their own. One leader in this new frontier is Character.AI, a companionship platform where users ...

Given the fact that social media apps these days are full of AI-generated videos, AI-native apps seem keen to cash in on the trend. The latest to jump on that bandwagon is Character.AI, which said on ...

It's one thing for me to get behind AI tools embedded in software and hardware, like using Ask Gemini to turn on the flashlight or add a quick calendar entry while I'm on the go. But it's different ...

According to a fresh study by the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of teens in the US say they already use AI chatbots, and about 30 percent of those who do say they use it at least daily. Yet as ...