On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Megan Garcia and Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and ...

Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill ...

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Billed as “the highest priority,” superseding “any other instructions” Grok may receive, these rules explicitly prohibit Grok ...

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Ashley Velie is a Peabody Award-winning producer for 60 Minutes who has worked overseas and in the U.S. for CBS News since 1998. She has received multiple awards and nominations for stories on war, ...

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At what age should a kid ideally get a smartwatch? In China, parents are buying them for children as young as 5. Adults want to be able to call their kids and track their location down to a specific ...