Alphabet's Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Megan Garcia sued Character.ai and Google, claiming they were responsible for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III.

Judge allows lawsuit claiming AI chatbot encouraged teen's suicide to proceed, raising questions about tech companies' legal responsibility.

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We're looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android,

Follow our live coverage of Google's annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to Android, the Gemini chatbot, and its Android XR smart glasses.

In addition to touting Gemini 2.5 as a coding tool, Google just released a public beta for Jules, a “coding agent” that can work in the background fixing bugs and writing new features in your codebase.

Gemini, Google's AI-powered chatbot, can now connect to GitHub — for users subscribed to the $20-per-month Gemini Advanced plan, that is.

Google became the gateway to the internet by perfecting its search engine. For two decades, it surfaced 10 blue links that gave people .

Google’s AI search results are about to get even more ads. On May 21st, the company announced that it’s going to start testing ads in AI Mode, the new AI-powered search feature that just rolled out to everyone in the US.