Trump accounts are a new type of tax-deferred investment vehicle for U.S. children, created under President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" tax and spending bill, which promises $1,000 seed ...

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 ...

We're all used to reading novels that are divided into chapters. But have you ever read a "novel in stories"? In this literary form, a string of self-contained short stories work together to create a ...

Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot now have eerily human voices. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped the AI bots to a tripod and took them to a cabin in the woods to test their ...

A suspect who stole nearly $10,000 worth of baseball and Pokémon cards from Tom Brady's CardVault store in New York City is wanted in connection to a string of similar crimes, police said. The theft ...

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As great as DC was in the ’80s, not everything they did could be perfect. Every decade is littered with characters that define that decade, and looking back on them they’re sometimes pretty cringe.

In a step toward making its platform safer for teenage users, Character.AI announced this week that it will ban users under 18 from chatting with its artificial intelligence-powered characters. For ...

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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 ...

Character.AI says under-18 users will no longer be able to talk with chatbots. Credit: Joseph Maldonado/Mashable/Getty Images Character.AI, a popular chatbot platform where users role-play with ...