With Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1, there is a new map, which means new characters. Throughout the season, you'll need to interact with characters to progress through quests or spend your gold to ...

Stories with visual elements and a choose-your-adventure vibe are the first new feature to replace open-ended conversations. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...

Kirby Air Riders has 21 playable characters, with most of them also having alternate colors that you'll unlock as you complete goals off of the game's massive checklists. You'll need to check the ...

Each character in Ball X Pit comes with their own starting ball and unique perk to tackle the game's eight levels. While each character can be made to work depending on your current build, some ...

In a step toward making its platform safer for teenage users, Character.AI announced this week that it will ban users under 18 from chatting with its artificial intelligence-powered characters. For ...

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The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

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For anyone like me, who could spend hours inside a character creator just determining which set of 20 eyelashes are the most elegantly arranged, stand back. Keep your guard up, find a shield…or just ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved ...