Massive data breach exposes AI chat users On August 28, 2025, Cybernews researchers discovered that the Hong Kong-based developer Imagime Interactive Limited had left an entire Kafka Broker server ...

Google offers two venues for AI chats, "AI Mode" and "Gemini." Which is best? Googling the question, I went right into AI Mode. "Gemini is sometimes lazy, and may skip searching entirely, relying on ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

Poe, Quora’s app that brings together different AI models into one platform, is launching group chat functionality. The company announced on Monday that users worldwide will be able to start group ...

Humans interrupt each other. Existing AI doesn't interrupt users. Maybe AI ought to do so. It's a push to change human-AI ...

Rather than just waiting their turn, a new crop of “interaction” AI models can think while they listen, promising true back-and-forth conversations.

The AI companion chatbot company Character.AI will soon have an adults-only policy for open-ended conversations with AI characters. Teens who use the app will start facing restrictions: They'll still ...

South Korean AI powerhouse behind 6.5M-user platform brings its proven interactive fiction experience to English-speaking audiences across iOS, Android, and Web Wrtn Technologies, the South Korean ...

What if your computer could truly understand you, anticipate your needs, streamline your tasks, and even collaborate with you in real-time? With its new AI Copilot update, Microsoft has unveiled a ...

Middletown, Delaware, April 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reverie announces new features that strengthen its position in AI character chat, introducing conversation forking, multi-character chats, and ...

Those under 18 will still be able to access AI-generated content with their favorite characters, but not free-wheeling conversations. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home ...