Character.AI

“These AI 'relationship' type bots are everything wrong with tech.>> Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son Sewell, a "bright and beautiful boy", had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an online character on the Character.ai app in late spring 2023.People be...”

“Google essentially (but not exactly) aqui-hired Shazeer from character.ai in a deal that cost them $2.7B, with Shazeer personally making something in the region of $1B from it. Presumably there was some sort of retention period specified in the contract (you are not going to pay ...”

“If he is supposedly extremely smart, then surely he would have known what he was doing. So how can anyone claim all this was just an accident?"Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides" - https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/google-character-ai-lawsuit...Be ...”

“Yes, but there is a very specific subset of things AI companies will and won't cite safety for as a concern, and that subset intersects neatly with things the companies consider to be business risks. Like, the main reason why AI companies are so willing to poison the well is beca...”

“Not capitalizing on LLMs until OpenAI came out with ChatGPT, and then suddenly everybody was running around like headless chickens is bigger. And then there was Fitbit. Motorola. and more recently, Noam and Character.AI.But imagine: robotics cred of BD combined with AI chops of G...”