Character.AI bans chatbots for teens after lawsuits blame app for deaths, suicide attempts

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Character.AI, known for bots that impersonate characters like Harry Potter, said Wednesday it will ban teens from using the chat function following lawsuits that blamed explicit chats on the app for children’s deaths and suicide attempts. Users under 18 will no longer be able to engage in open-ended chats with the app’s AI bots — […]


How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason

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In September, OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT designed to reason through tasks involving math, science and computer programming. Unlike previous versions of the chatbot, this new technology could spend time “thinking” through complex problems before settling on an answer. Soon, the company said its new reasoning technology had outperformed the industry’s leading systems […]