In the face of piling controversy — and a second lawsuit concerning the welfare of children — Google has taken pains to downplay its relationship to the embattled AI chatbot startup Character.AI.

This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind ...

Founders of one of the hottest AI startups Character.AI are re-joining Google along with other team members. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De ...

Portrait of Noam Shazeer, cofounder and CEO of Character.AI, a conversational AI startup. Taken at the companys office in Palo Alto, CA.(Winni Wintermeyer for The Washington Post via Getty Images) In ...

A mother in Florida is suing the Google-owned Character.AI platform, claiming it had a large part in the suicide of her 14-year-old son. Sewell Setzer III fatally shot himself in February 2024, weeks ...

Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer will return to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to create a startup that X owner Elon Musk had been rumored to want. Shazeer had ...

Character.AI Inc., a well-funded startup with a chatbot service for consumers, today announced that its founders will join Google LLC. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the search ...

On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and AI startup Character.AI must face a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a Florida mother who claims the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google has appointed Noam Shazeer, the former head of startup Character.AI and before that a long-time Google researcher, to co-lead its main AI project. Shazeer will serve as a ...

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