How do we know when to believe something we hear or see in the news? According to classical rhetoric (the art of persuasion), there are three tests a statement should meet to be treated as true: It ...

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SPOILERS are ahead for the Stranger Things finale, now streaming with a Netflix subscription. There’s few TV finales that have been as highly anticipated as the end of Stranger Things. Leading up to ...

Netflix sensation “Stranger Things” has always thrived on the strength of its ensemble, a testament to the actors, the characters created by the Duffer Brothers and the too-often unsung hero, casting ...

Stories offers a more ‘structured’ experience for teens, who can no longer hold open-ended conversations with the platform’s AI characters. Stories offers a more ‘structured’ experience for teens, who ...

Shueisha and Bandai Namco announced Dragon Ball the One, a worldwide character popularity poll, is now available. People can vote through various rounds on the official site. Everything kicked off on ...

Forty-three years ago, in 1982, Detroit was introduced to a wonderful character, Count Scary, played by none other than Mr. Tom Ryan. Count Scary was no ordinary vampire. With his exaggerated ...

Researchers from Anthropic investigated Claude 3.5 Haiku’s ability to decide when to break a line of text within a fixed width, a task that requires the model to track its position as it writes. The ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

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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 ...

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