Character.AI cuts off teens from their companions
It's the first big developer to say AI companions aren't safe for under-18s. Will others follow?
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The AI backlash needs a plan
Democrats have a mandate to rein in frontier labs, data centers, and more. Can they deliver without repeating their mistakes from the social-media era?
The frontier labs launch election war rooms
An old playbook is back for the deepfake era. Is it working?
What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common
AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now?
The AI election that wasn't
Voters have other things on their minds — for now. PLUS: OpenAI’s clever policy to fight deepfakes, and the Anthropic S-1