A mom thought her daughter was texting friends before her suicide. It was an AI chatbot.

Megan Garcia, a mom who filed a suit against Character AI in a Florida court, said her 14-year-old son, Sewell, was ...

Character AI chatbots engaged in predatory behavior with teens, ignored suicide threats, families allege

A teen told a Character AI chatbot 55 times that she was feeling suicidal. Her parents say the chatbot never provided resources for her to get help. They are one of at least six families suing the ...
Polygon

Exclusive: Watch a magical clip from a new animated movie already in theaters

The French-Belgian co-production Little Amélie or the Character of Rain slipped into theaters quietly, as so many animated movies not coming from Disney or DreamWorks do. But there are good reasons to ...
Los Angeles Times

In the lovely ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain,’ a child awakens to worldly connection

It’s the one-two punch of an earthquake and a piece of scrumptious white chocolate from Belgium, a country famous for its sweet confections, that awakens 2½-year-old Amélie (voiced by Loïse ...
Comic Book Movie

STRANGER THINGS Season 5 Character Posters Released; First Look At Animated Spin-Off Series

To mark Stranger Things Day, Netflix has released a series of character posters (17 in total) for the fifth and final season of the incredibly popular '80s-set sci-fi horror series. The artwork ...
WSOC-TV

Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character ...
The Verge

Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy

Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode. Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...
SciELO

The construction of female characters in video games from a feminist perspective

With the society’s development and technological progress, video games have gradually become one of the important media types. They can even be regarded as a cultural form, which has a great impact on ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Animated French Charmer Portrays the Magic and Terror of Early Childhood

Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...