FoloToy's AI teddy bear is back on sale following its brief foray into BDSM

A brand spanking-new FoloToy teddy bear can be yours once again. However, he may now be less knowledgeable about spanking. The infamous "Kumma" children's AI teddy bear, once an expert [...]

If you liked the Playdate game Root Bear, you should check out Pup Cup

You’ve heard of roguelike, you’ve heard of Soulslike, but have you ever heard of Rootlike? Root Bear is one of those games that just perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Playdate; it’s silly as [...]

A retro Starship Troopers shooter, a video store sim and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There are a whole bunch of neat new games out this week, as well as updates on some interesting upcoming projects. In cas [...]

Sales of a teddy bear were suspended because of its sexually explicit AI

FoloToy, a company selling AI-enabled toys, suspended sales of its products after a consumer safety report showed there were few restrictions around what its toys would talk about, CNN writes. The rep [...]

The Morning After: European policymakers scale back AI and privacy laws

Happy Friday! As the annual tech discount chaos of Black Friday approaches (good deal here and here and several more here), European policymakers have proposed easing some of the EU’s strictest regu [...]

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure su [...]

The Dow swings wildly and the S&P 500 touches bear market territory as trade war fallout continues

The S&P 500 touched bear market territory and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed as much as 1,700 points early Monday — before gaining more than 700 points and then turning negative again. Th [...]

What is a bear market? The Nasdaq is already in one — and the S&P 500 is close

Stocks continued their historic slide Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 349 points (0.91%) and the S&P 500 losing 12 points (0.23%). The Dow now has lost 11.3% in the past month, [...]

Agentic AI security breaches are coming: 7 ways to make sure it's not your firm

AI agents – task-specific models designed to operate autonomously or semi-autonomously given instructions — are being widely implemented across enterprises (up to 79% of all surveyed for a PwC rep [...]