"Rudi" is a red panda that's part of the Grok app. It tells stories aimed at kids, ages 3 to 6. Grok launched a few character-based chatbots this month, including a sexy adult one. I tried it myself ...

AI chatbots are becoming more prevalent everywhere you look — in kid-friendly apps, too. There's not a lot of research on how kids and chatbots interact. Kids might tend to overshare. Some parents are ...

AI-powered chatbots in children’s toys have reportedly been advising kids on how to deal with matches and where to find ...

Would you let your kid play with an AI chatbot? A new report found that after about ten minutes of conversation, guardrails ...

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Last week, Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having conversations with its chatbots.

A new consumer safety report warns several AI-powered toys marketed to young children are providing unsafe guidance, explicit ...

Elon Musk's xAI has launched a series of character chatbots — and one of them is geared toward young kids. I wondered: Is this a good idea? And how's it going to work? So I tried it myself. So far, it ...