A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Google and the artificial intelligence company Character.AI have agreed to settle a series of high-profile lawsuits with families alleging that chatbots on Character’s popular app harmed children, ...

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In what may mark the tech industry’s first significant legal settlement over AI-related harm, Google and the startup Character.AI are negotiating terms with families whose teenagers died by suicide or ...

The final episode release of "Stranger Things" Season 5, Episode 8 is coming up. Season 5 is the final season and brings the main cast back for a showdown with Vecna. An online personality quiz can ...

On Wednesday, Character.AI announced it will bar anyone under the age of 18 from open-ended chats with its AI characters starting on November 25, implementing one of the most restrictive age policies ...

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Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI last week that warned the startup to stop using copyrighted characters without authorization. Character.AI allows users to create and interact ...

Ah, to be a character actor. No, you may not ever lead a big blockbuster movie or get a project greenlit based on your name alone. But you will enjoy a wide-ranging career playing all kinds of ...