Character.Artificial Intelligence to ban children under-18 from chatbots

Character.Artificial Intelligence will phase out open-ended chats for under-18 users, starting with a two-hour daily cap on October 29, 2025, and a full ban on November 25, 2025. The company will use an age-assurance model and Persona ID checks to distinguish minors from adults.
Micron launches 192 GB socamm2 for low-power Artificial Intelligence data centers

Micron is sampling a 192 GB socamm2 module to expand adoption of low-power memory in Artificial Intelligence data centers. The module increases capacity in the same footprint and promises large reductions in time to first token for real-time inference.
The future of cyber insurance in an artificial intelligence-driven world

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses operate and how cybercriminals attack, increasing the need for cyber insurance as part of risk planning.
Gaming Copilot Artificial Intelligence uploads screenshots to Microsoft by default

Gaming Copilot Artificial Intelligence on Windows collects screengrabs, performs OCR, and sends extracted text to Microsoft servers by default. Users can disable training of text models from screenshots in Game Bar privacy settings.
EA’s Artificial Intelligence tools reportedly cost game developers time

Electronic Arts announced a partnership with Stability AI even as employees tell Business Insider that in-house Artificial Intelligence tools have created more work than relief, producing hallucinated code and requiring manual fixes. Artists say their work was used to train models, and roughly 100 quality assurance roles were reportedly eliminated after automation of tester feedback.
Nvidia GTC in DC, Qualcomm’s Artificial Intelligence chip, OpenAI’s restructuring

The article reports that Nvidia pitched Washington to preserve its CUDA moat, a dynamic the piece links to challenges facing Qualcomm’s new Artificial Intelligence chip. It also covers OpenAI’s restructuring and a Microsoft collar trade.
Qualcomm unveils artificial intelligence 200 and 250 chip-based accelerator cards and racks

Qualcomm announced new chip-based accelerator cards and racks, the Artificial Intelligence 200 and 250, intended for data center inference workloads. The company positions the solutions as rack-scale options offering higher memory capacity and improved performance per dollar per watt for generative Artificial Intelligence inference.
Open source artificial intelligence week advances models, tools and research

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Week highlighted new open models, datasets and tooling from NVIDIA and partners, from PyTorch conference awards to expanded Nemotron releases on Hugging Face. The event showcased progress in research, embodied intelligence and startup innovation.
NVIDIA advances ROS 2 with GPU-aware tools and Artificial Intelligence libraries

At ROSCon in Singapore, NVIDIA unveiled GPU-aware contributions to ROS 2, open-sourced performance tooling and Isaac ROS 4.0 for deploying Artificial Intelligence in robotics. The company also pledged support for the Open Source Robotics Alliance Physical Artificial Intelligence special interest group.
NVIDIA launches BlueField-4 to power the operating system of Artificial Intelligence factories

NVIDIA unveiled the BlueField-4 data processing unit to accelerate gigascale Artificial Intelligence infrastructure with 800Gb/s throughput and expanded compute. The platform brings software-defined acceleration for storage, networking and security to support trillion-token workloads.