The AI boom is seeing one of its first major busts, as Character.ai has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it searches for a buyer. Founded in 2021, Character.ai enables users to create ...

Lawsuits by US states and families say its chatbots harmed children Character.AI has been losing over $8 million per month Disney recently hired Character.AI's ex-CEO to lead tech efforts Oct 13 ...

Tesla’s Optimus robot production reportedly increased in 2026. Here’s what to know about Elon Musk’s 2027 sales target, manufacturing challenges, and rollout. Tesla’s Optimus robot handles objects in ...

Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the ...

Grok Bot just got a second significant upgrade this week: its own email address. “Bot can use it to sign up for services, contact businesses for you, or schedule time with someone,” per the ...

Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on ...

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from ...

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot kicked off the consumer-friendly AI agent app wave this summer. Facing competition from Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Dot, Grok Bot just got a new capability upgrade with the ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation. By Dylan Freedman Graphic by Keith ...

As part of a set of experiments from Robocurve, frontier AI models were used to control robot arms and see if they'd perform potentially dangerous acts, like stabbing a baby doll, similar to the one ...

Otto Kumm survived Germany’s defeat while facing demands for extradition over crimes committed in the Balkans. After avoiding trial and returning to civilian life, he helped establish HIAG, an ...