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.

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.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's Gemini AI chatbot app has more than 400 million MAUs ahead of Google I/O 2025.

Google reportedly faces a fresh Justice Department probe over whether it violated antitrust law through its partnership with artificial intelligence chatbot firm Character.AI.

Google announced a confusing array of new ways to use its AI to find information at its annual I/O event. Here’s a guide.

The tech giant announced a new AI mode for its search engine that includes a chatbot-like feature that enables users to ask questions about anything and get answers written by Google’s AI models. What it means to “Google” something might soon change dramatically.

The company is rolling out a feature that will answer search queries in a chatbot-style conversation without the classic blue links.

Ever since a mourning mother, Megan Garcia, filed a lawsuit alleging that Character.AI's dangerous chatbots caused her son's suicide, Google has maintained that—so it could dodge claims that it had contributed to the platform's design and was unjustly enriched—it had nothing to do with C.AI's development.

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

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