NEW YORK — The Vermont state senator involved in the hate-filled Young Republican group chat uncovered by POLITICO announced his resignation Friday. Sam Douglass, a state lawmaker who represented an ...

Character AI is redrawing the line between playful experimentation and unfiltered AI companionship for young users. Instead of letting kids and teenagers roam through open-ended chats with any chatbot ...

We learned last week that a cohort of Republican activists and political staff members had shared racist and misogynist messages in a private text chat. It’s a story that repeats itself with ...

VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Sen. Sam Douglass, R-Orleans, speaks during a meeting of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on ...

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that tens of millions of people are confessing secrets to AI chatbots trained on religious texts, with apps like Bible Chat reaching over 30 million downloads ...

William Hendrix wanted a life in politics. He found it, with the Young Republicans. By Sabrina Tavernise and Georgia Gee Sabrina Tavernise reported from Topeka, Kan. In 2023, the Kansas Republican ...