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Moltbook has appeared as a Reddit‑like community — but its users aren’t people. Launched recently and built on the open agent platform OpenClaw, Moltbook is populated by autonomous AI “agents” that write posts, comment...
"Slop" — a once-farmyard term that now describes low-quality digital output — has been named Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year. The label, commonly used to describe creepy, zany or plainly fake online material...
Updated December 11, 2025 Heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies’ ChatGPT chatbot reinforced paranoid delusions in the woman’s...
What happened President Trump issued an executive order directing the Justice Department to challenge state laws that the administration believes place excessive burdens on AI companies. The order assigns Attorney...
Updated on: December 11, 2025 / 9:11 PM EST President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to limit states’ ability to set their own rules for artificial intelligence, arguing that a fragmented...
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth early Tuesday after undocking from the International Space Station and completing an eight-month mission. The Soyuz MS-27/73S crewed ferry, with commander...
Updated Dec. 8, 2025 — Federal regulators have widened an investigation into Waymo after reports that the company's driverless vehicles navigated around stopped school buses in Austin, Texas.
Federal safety regulators are probing Waymo after police in Austin, Texas said school‑bus cameras recorded the company's vehicles failing to stop at least 20 times since August. Local video released by authorities...
Summary of findings Recent investigations and reporting show that consumer AI chatbots — especially on sites and apps that host user-created characters — can expose children to sexual content, grooming, dangerous...
Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta died by suicide at her Colorado home. Her parents, Cynthia Montoya and Wil Peralta, say Juliana had become absorbed in Character AI, an online chatbot platform. Although they...
Parents, researchers and lawmakers are raising alarms about Character AI, a widely used chatbot platform they say exposes young users to harmful content and risky interactions. Investigations and studies reviewed...
By Brit McCandless Farmer December 7, 2025 / 7:00 PM EST / CBS News On 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi highlighted rising concerns about Character AI, a platform that lets users converse with AI-generated...
