Loti partners with Underscore Talent to Protect Likeness Rights for its Roster of Global Creators Amid Growing Deepfake

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Loti AI, the leader in likeness and IP protection technology, today announced a partnership with Underscore Talent to use Loti AI's advanced technology and ...
kottke.org

Underscore: Now Slightly Less Random

I pushed a key change to the Underscore music player over the weekend. Members can now click on any song in their collection to play it (previously there was only a randomize button). I added this ...
Slate

A.I. Tools All Use the Same Sparkly Icon. That’s a Surprisingly Big Problem.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Lately, I’ve been returning to a ...
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Character, phrase of year underscore tech aspirations

"Resilience", or ren (韧) in Chinese, has been chosen as China's character of the year, while the homegrown AI model "DeepSeek" is the phrase of the year for 2025, highlighting the country's persistent ...
TechCrunch

Character.AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat

Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...
CNBC

Character.AI bans teens from open-ended chats: Why this psychotherapist says real human interaction is crucial

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...
Democrat and Chronicle

Rochester water main breaks underscore aging infrastructure

A water main break that flooded Culver Road in Rochester Nov. 11 is a story not unique to Rochester, with the country’s water infrastructure aging and underfunded, by-and-large. Even with the ...
Futurism

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including ...
Artnet

Unlocking the Occult: 5 Mystical Symbols and Their Secret Histories

Occultus, the Latin root for “occult,” points to the hidden and the obscured—an apt source for a word steeped in mystery. For centuries after the term’s wider adoption, it has continued to suggest the ...
TechCrunch

Character.AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids

Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI ...
Rolling Stone

Character.ai Was Sued Over a Teen’s Suicide. It Just Banned Minors From Chatting With Bots

The AI chatbot service Character.ai announced on Wednesday that it plans to gradually scale back the ability of users under the age of 18 to interact with digital personalities, and eventually cut ...