Legislation that would enlist the federal government in reforming the troubled-teen industry is heading to President Joe Biden’s desk. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act cleared the House ...

A Camden teen admitted to committing two armed carjackings in south Philadelphia ... An Uber driver was picking up a passenger at the Ikea on Columbus Boulevard when he briefly stepped out of his 2016 ...

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

A Ventura County teen is facing nearly two dozen child pornography charges in juvenile court, the district attorney’s office announced Friday. According to the DA’s office, the 17-year-old ...

Teens' social media use — and its effect on their mental health — is often in the news, and new research from the Pew Research Center states that nearly half of American teens are "almost ...

Nearly half of US teens are “almost constantly” online, though the platforms they spend their time on vary significantly, according to a new Pew survey. Despite some variety in their overall ...

In a press release, Character.AI said that, over the past month, it’s developed two separate versions of its model: one for adults and one for teens. The teen LLM is designed to place “more ...

"I just have no hope for your parents," a bot on Character.AI allegedly told an autistic Texas teen getty Artificial intelligence company Character.AI is being sued after parents claimed a bot on ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of digital devices, social media and other online platforms. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,391 U.S. teens from ...

For example, it alleges that a Character.AI bot implied to a teen user that he could kill his parents for limiting his screentime. Character.AI markets its technology as “personalized AI for ...