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Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on children. The company is facing several lawsuits over child safety, including by the mother of a teenager who says the company’s chatbots pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Character Technologies, the Menlo Park, California-based company behind Character.AI, said Wednesday it will be removing the ability of users under 18 to participate in open-ended chats with AI characters. The changes will go into effect by Nov. 25 and a two-hour daily limit will start immediately. Character.AI added that it is working…
The logo and lettering of Paramount Skydance Corporation can be seen at a Paramount stand at the Media Days in Munich (Bavaria, Germany). Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesParamount Skydance is slashing nearly 1,000 jobs beginning on Wednesday, just months after the close of its merger, according to a person close to the situation. The layoffs will eventually amount to 2,000 roles, the person said.”When we launched the new Paramount in August, we made clear that building a strong, future-focused company would require significant change – including restructuring the organization,” CEO David Ellison told employees in a memo…
Last updated: 6:15 PM ET, Tue October 28, 2025 Intrepid Travel is adding 28 new active vacations on six continents to its portfolio of 2026 tours.In all the adventure operator will offer 148 trips, which include hiking, cycling, kayaking, snorkeling and rafting itineraries. The new Intrepid Travel trips run the gamut, from a four-day “Walking & Trekking” Peru itinerary, which includes a Machu Picchu guided tour, to a nine-day “Hike, Bike & Kayak” vacation in Central America, and a seven-day “Hike, Bike & Raft trip in Croatia and Montenegro.Other tour highlights include a five-day “Oaxaca’s Indigenous Highlands” hiking trip in Mexico,…
Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society could be reconfigured to share the abundance created by AI technology. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the Khosla Ventures founder suggested the U.S. government could take a 10% stake in all public corporations and redistribute that corporate wealth to the public at large. As Khosla put it, the idea was spurred by President Donald Trump’s decision for the U.S. government to purchase a 10% stake in Intel. “When Trump bought 10% of Intel, I wondered if it wasn’t a good idea,” Khosla said onstage at Disrupt. “Take…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 7:00 AM ET, Wed October 29, 2025 Cruising is riding a wave of momentum as the industry celebrates major milestones and record-breaking projections. From Viking’s 100th ship to Disney’s newest vessel and dramatic rescues at sea, October 2025 has been a standout month for the cruise industry. These are some of the biggest cruise news stories of October 2025.AAA Predicts Record Number of Americans Will Cruise in 2026The cruise industry is booming: AAA is forecasting another record year in 2026, with 21.7 million Americans projected to take an ocean cruise vacation.Cruise ships spotted from Doctor’s…
Owen Sakawa, the founder of Elloe AI, wants his platform to be the “immune system for AI” and the “antivirus for any AI agent.” The idea, Sakawa said in an interview days before the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where Elloe AI is a Top 20 finalist in the Startup Battlefield competition, is to add a layer to companies’ LLMs that checks for bias, hallucinations, errors, compliance issues, misinformation, and unsafe outputs. “AI is evolving at a very fast pace, and it’s moving this fast without guard rails, without safety nets, without mechanism to prevent it from ever going off…
The Ultium Cell factory in Warren, Ohio, is shown, July 7, 2023.Gene J. Puskar | APGeneral Motors laid off roughly 1,700 workers at manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio on Wednesday, citing a slowdown in the electric vehicle market.The company confirmed there were around 1,200 layoffs at Detroit’s electric vehicle plant and 550 cuts at Ohio’s Ultium Cells battery cell plant, in addition to 850 temporary layoffs at that site in Ohio. The company also said it would temporarily lay off 700 at Ultium Cells’ Tennessee plant.”In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning…
Vram Ismailyan spent nearly 14 years at Wells Fargo, selling payment infrastructure strategies to Fortune 500 companies. Despite being a top performer in the payments division, he felt constantly bogged down by the bank’s antiquated technology. “I spent at least five to 10 hours preparing for customer meetings,” he told TechCrunch. “I had to work through 10 or 15 different systems to gather information, make sense of it, and then put it into a PowerPoint.” Like his colleague, Kevin Miyamoto also struggled with Wells Fargo’s tech. Despite managing $900 billion in annual client payments, he managed his entire portfolio of…
Fish sticks, like any other frozen, breaded product, conjure up visions of a utilitarian meal. But there’s no reason fish sticks, which really can be very tasty, can’t be lent a little class by pairing them with marquee ingredients, such as fresh-from-the-vine heirloom tomatoes. Panzanella, a rustic Italian salad made of chunks of yesterday’s bread brought back to life with the juice of fresh tomatoes, herbs, and crunchy sweet onions, is a perfect starting point for changing one’s mind about fish sticks.In this recipe from Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver’s “The Blue Food Cookbook,” crunchy, just-cooked fish sticks replace the…
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection unveiled its portfolio of 2027 Mediterranean and Northern Europe sailings from April through October onboard Evrima and Ilma, which include 50 new itineraries.The itineraries, which are now open for reservations, will also include 12 new ports in France, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Spain. Just some of the new ports include La Rochelle, France; Zadar, Croatia; Aarhus, Denmark; Travemünde, Germany; and San Sebastián and Santander, Spain.The company is also debuting London’s Tilbury as a turnaround port, which “will provide convenient access from the city center for voyages across Northern Europe,” Ritz-Carlton said. “In the Adriatic, all sailings…