Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text ...

UPDATE (10 p.m. EDT): Character.ai is back online and fully operational after users reported widespread outages earlier. Character.ai is reportedly down for hundreds of users in the United States.

Stories with visual elements and a choose-your-adventure vibe are the first new feature to replace open-ended conversations. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...

A longtime “Simpsons” character has died. During the Sunday, Nov. 16, episode, the First Church of Springfield’s organist, Alice Glick (voiced by Tress MacNeille), keeled over in the middle of service ...

Character.AI said it will soon shut off the ability for minors to have free-ranging conversations, including romantic dialogues, with the startup's AI chatbots. Starting Wednesday, the company will ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

“Family Guy” killed off an iconic character. Peter Griffin’s (voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane) longtime rival Ernie the Giant Chicken (voiced by Danny Smith) was brutally murdered during the ...

What just happened? Disney, it seems, is one company that isn't a fan of AI. The entertainment behemoth has sent a cease and desist letter to chatbot service Character.ai warning it to stop using ...

Magneto explains that the world took a dark turn after Revelation rejoined the X-Men in their time. Revelation split the team, with his followers taking control of the eastern half of the United ...

Disney has demanded that Character.AI stop using its copyrighted characters. Axios reports that the entertainment juggernaut sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI, claiming that it has ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

If it feels as though Labubus are everywhere these days, well, add one more place to the list. The toothy monster character, which has exploded in popularity across the past couple of years, inspired ...