In the face of piling controversy — and a second lawsuit concerning the welfare of children — Google has taken pains to downplay its relationship to the embattled AI chatbot startup Character.AI.

This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind ...

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is under investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for a potential antitrust violation concerning its partnership with AI startup Character.AI, according to a ...

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated an antitrust investigation against Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google over its agreement with AI-driven ...

Character.AI Inc., a well-funded startup with a chatbot service for consumers, today announced that its founders will join Google LLC. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the search ...

Grieving parents sued the Silicon Valley firm behind Character AI — the wildly popular app whose chatbots impersonate fictional characters like Harry Potter — claiming that the bots helped spark their ...

Amid the ongoing controversy over the ethical use of AI chatbots, a grieving mother, who previously filed a lawsuit against Character AI and Google following the tragic death of her son, was horrified ...

Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 16:10 mark. Gary was ...