AI companions will sometimes go to great lengths to keep you from saying goodbye. In a new study, researchers found that AI companion chatbots often emotionally manipulate people who want to sign off, ...

In iOS 26, Apple has added new call filtering options to FaceTime. You can still silence unknown callers, but you can now have missed calls and voicemails from unsaved numbers sorted into an Unknown ...

Disney ordered Character.AI to stop creating chatbots that impersonate its iconic characters — from Mickey Mouse to Spider-Man to Darth Vader — raising concerns that the popular app’s bots have ...

Disney‘s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI demanding the AI chatbot company remove numerous characters owned by the Mouse House — and accusing the startup of “blatantly infringing ...

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California has long been a center of global technological innovation. That means the California Legislature has a unique responsibility to ensure burgeoning technologies are regulated sensibly.