Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

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Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI last week that warned the startup to stop using copyrighted characters without authorization. Character.AI allows users to create and interact ...

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...

Char Lorenz sent shockwaves throughout the softball world when she chose to enter the transfer portal after an All-American redshirt-freshman season at Louisville. But a successful individual season ...

When Karandeep Anand’s 5-year-old daughter gets home from school, they fire up the artificial intelligence chatbot platform Character.AI so she can chat about her day with her favorite characters, ...

Laura has been writing about anime for some time. Char in Gundam GQuuuuuuX pilots the RX-78-02 in a pivotal role for Zeon during the war. The series contrasts Char, a trained soldier, with Amuro Ray, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In a curious move, Bandai Spirits has announced a new upcoming ...

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KENSINGTON (WPVI) -- Viraj Thomas is turning out more than a half dozen varieties of pizza at Char. He opened the Kensington pizza shop in the middle of last August, falling just weeks shy of his ...

After seven months of closure for repairs, Char Bar officially reopened Thursday. The historic dive bar — located at 439 N. High St. — was forced to shut its doors to complete necessary repairs after ...

Downtown's Char Bar has plans to reopen this week, seven months after a car crashed into its front door on North High Street. "We can't wait to see you!" the bar posted Sunday on Instagram in an ...