The US will weigh a ban on children’s access to companion bots, as two senators announced bipartisan legislation Tuesday that ...

The GUARD Act—introduced in Congress by Senators Josh Hawley and ​​Richard Blumenthal—aims to keep minors off chatbots such ...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a flurry of tech regulation bills, but it's the legislation he vetoed this week that could shape the national debate over kids' online safety. Why it matters: The ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot ...