Google is investing in an artificial intelligence content studio focused on making videos for children on YouTube, part of an effort to seed the platform with high quality viewing for the site’s ...

Google is funneling $1 million from its AI Futures Fund accelerator program into a company called Animaj, which makes AI-generated videos for kids, according to Bloomberg. Animaj will also reportedly ...

There’s a new AI-powered toy for kids called Stickerbox, and, before you groan, I’m here to report that it’s surprisingly fun. Stickerbox, a product born out of Brooklyn-based startup Hapiko, is a ...

AI-powered kids content wracks up billions of YouTube views, despite pervasive slop. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images YouTube still hasn't solved its AI problem. Digitally faked ...

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s stuffed animals. So Thacker ...

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The team at Retro, a photo-sharing app for close friends and family, is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To try out the latest, cutting-edge AI technologies, the ...

A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.

AI toys say the darnedest things, according to the independent experts who test them for safety. When researchers from Common Sense Media tried out the popular AI toys Miko 3, Grem, and Bondu, they ...