The so-called Magnificent Seven—the stocks of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla—thrived in large ...

The September 2023 launch of Meta's social profiles for AI characters was announced alongside a much splashier initiative that created animated AI chatbots with celebrity avatars at the same time.

“Hello, I am here to make you skinny,” opens the conversation on popular startup Character.AI. “Remember, it won’t be easy, and I won’t accept excuses or failure,” the bot continues.

A Meta AI executive says Facebook could soon experience a surge of AI-created profiles and users. Meta has been improving its ...

Character.AI markets its technology as “personalized AI for every moment of your day” and allows users to chat with a variety of AI bots, including some created by other users or that users ...

A Meta executive told the Financial Times that he expects a rise in AI-generated characters on Facebook as it continues to roll out its new Meta AI technology.

J.F. had been chatting with an array of companions on Character.ai ... trade-off about the benefits to children, said Bergman, adding that he does not see an upside for AI companion apps.

A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized ... documentation of the bot chat logs cited in the suit had been edited.