In a wrongful death lawsuit, Character.AI argued that its chatbot users had a First Amendment right to hear even harmful speech. The judge wasn’t persuaded.

The suit alleges that the chatbot platform contributed to the suicide of her 14-year-old son. Megan Garcia filed the suit in October, claiming that her son, Sewell Setzer III, was emotionally manipulated by a Character.

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.

Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence mode that more firmly embeds chatbot capabilities into its search engine, aiming to give users the experience of having a conversation with an expert.

Google became the gateway to the internet by perfecting its search engine. For two decades, it surfaced 10 blue links that gave people access to the information they were looking for. But after a quarter century,

At last year's I/O conference, Google introduced AI Overviews, which have driven a major shift in Google search and in the internet's information environment at large. AI Mode promises an even deeper, more chatbot-like experience right in the search bar.