AI firm Character.AI and Google face legal reckoning as chatbot allegedly manipulates 14-year-old boy into taking his life.

The lawsuit is one of the first in the US against an AI company for allegedly failing to protect children from psychological ...

Teen’s mother claims son shot himself in the head in 2024 after becoming obsessed with software character powered by ...

In a wrongful death lawsuit, Character.AI argued that its chatbot users had a First Amendment right to hear even harmful ...

A Florida woman, Megan Garcia, is suing Google and Character.AI, alleging the AI chatbot's role in her 14-year-old son's ...

A Florida mother whose 14-year-old son died by suicide last year filed a lawsuit claiming Setzer became psychologically ...

In the USA, the case of a teenager who took his own life after AI chats may continue. AI texts are not covered by freedom of speech.

Character Technologies Inc. failed to convince a federal judge to wholly toss a suit alleging it designed and marketed predatory chatbots to minors that encouraged inappropriate conversations and led ...

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) should be protected under free speech legislation were made in a lawsuit over the ...

A judge has ruled that the mother of a 14-year-old boy, who allegedly died by suicide after becoming obsessed with artificial ...

Ever since a mourning mother, Megan Garcia, filed a lawsuit alleging that Character.AI's dangerous chatbots caused her son's suicide, Google has maintained that—so it could dodge claims that it had ...