48-year-old Noam Shazeer, a co-founder of Character.AI, has recently made headlines after a teenager died by suicide after reportedly being obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI. The teen's ...

Character.ai is the brainchild of Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Fretias, two ex-Googlers with fingerprints on several key innovations in generative AI. The duo left Google due to the company failing to ...

With net worths estimated to be in the triple-digit billions, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page could easily be ...

As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, includin ...

Character.AI's founders are Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, two ex-Googlers who departed the Silicon Valley giant back in 2021, and have since chalked their exit up to — get this — too ...

A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google, following the death of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III. The lawsuit, brought by Setzer's ...

While doomsdayism about AI exaggerates potential future harms of AI, unregulated tech in the present is already causing ...

The lawsuit accuses Character.ai, its co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google LLC, of designing "their product with dark patterns and deployed a powerful LLM to manipulate ...

The deal, echoing ones struck by Microsoft and Amazon in the past few months, will see Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas rejoin Google, where they were formerly employees.

After leaving Google to start the company, Character.AI cofounders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are back at Google. Setzer’s family now plans to sue Character.AI, alleging the company is ...