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On Thursday, The Walt Disney Company made two significant moves regarding generative artificial intelligence (AI). First, CEO Bob ("AIger") Iger announced a three-year, $1 billion deal with OpenAI ...

After the Trump administration removed Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day and Juneteenth from the 2026 National Parks fee-free days, there has been notable backlash from the public, lawmakers and ...

Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot now have eerily human voices. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped the AI bots to a tripod and took them to a cabin in the woods to test their ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

Character.AI plans to ban children from talking with its AI chatbots starting next month amid growing scrutiny over how young users are interacting with the technology. The company, known for its vast ...

Artificial intelligence chatbot platform Character.AI announced on Oct. 29 that it will move to ban children under 18 from engaging in open-ended chats with its character-based chatbots. The move ...

The Evil Queen might be going away for a bit, but this isn't a permanent change and is just business as usual at the parks Disney Disney World Evil Queen Villains A rumor circulating online that ...

Disney ordered Character.AI to stop creating chatbots that impersonate its iconic characters — from Mickey Mouse to Spider-Man to Darth Vader — raising concerns that the popular app’s bots have ...

Character.AI received a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, urging the chatbot company to remove Disney characters from among the millions of AI companions on its platform, Variety reports. The ...

Disney‘s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI demanding the AI chatbot company remove numerous characters owned by the Mouse House — and accusing the startup of “blatantly infringing ...

Character.AI said Tuesday that it has removed Disney characters from its chatbot platform after the studio asked the developer to stop using its copyrighted characters without authorization. The ...