No longer the province of the imagination, ChattyBear is part of a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) toys. It ...

Leading social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warned about the impact of AI toys in a TED Talk. Children risk becoming attached ...

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The Barbie you grew up with was nothing like the one sold today.

As adults, we see ads for modern toys and think, "Man, I wish I had that when I was a kid!" But if we looked back at all the toys we had, we'd remember just how awesome our childhood was. Our toys lit ...

Wake up, millennial women—it’s our time. The original American Girl dolls are all coming back to stores this spring in a new launch, the brand tells Glamour exclusively. Yes, I mean every single ...

Courteney Cox, basketball fans and Marvel movies have recently joined in on the resurgence of the band’s signature anthemic ballad. By Sopan Deb As Ebuka Okorie of Stanford University prepared to ...

Three Jane Does, two under 18, filed a lawsuit against xAI yesterday about the generation of child sex abuse material (CSAM) on Grok, Elon Musk's AI tool. "Like a rag doll brought to life through the ...

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People can be very protective when it comes to their childhood nostalgia. So when Mattel gave six of the original historical American Girl dolls “modern-era” makeovers for a new line of dolls, the ...

A new line from Mattel lifts six of the dolls out of their historical contexts and drops them into contemporary fashions. Purists aren’t pleased. By Gina Cherelus To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ...

The American Girl brand has posted five consecutive quarters of sales growth, but sales have fallen from their peak in the mid-2010s. The brand’s stabilization comes as parent company Mattel faces ...