Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save In late 2022, NASA kicked off its Artemis campaign by flying the Orion spacecraft, without anyone on board, in a test flight around the moon. Now, it is aiming for the surface. In the wee hours Monday morning, a spacecraft owned and operated by a…

Story highlights Driverless electric racer completes successful track test in Marrakech, Morocco Planned Roborace series will see autonomous cars compete at Formula E ePrix weekends CNN  —  It is a car kitted out with technology its developers boldly predict will transform our cities and change the way we live. The autonomous “DevBot #1” took a…

After months of strikes by the writers’ and screen actors’ unions — and billions of dollars in losses to California’s economy — Hollywood is back to work. Sort of. We still need the SAG-AFTRA membership to ratify the hard-won deal for the TV and movie industry to continue its post-pandemic recovery. Like the Writers Guild…

Google will lay off several hundred workers across multiple parts of its business as the search giant shifts more resources toward the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the company confirmed Thursday. A few hundred employees were cut from Google’s core engineering team, the company said. Google also cut hundreds of workers from the division working…

Amazon continues to trim its headcount after a year of mass layoffs. Beginning at the end of 2022 and continuing through 2023, Amazon initiated the largest layoffs in its history, cutting more than 27,000 jobs across almost every area of the company. Team, We’ve taken significant steps towards our long-term vision of making Prime Video…

Portable X-ray equipment that can take high quality images is transforming healthcare in remote areas.