Poe is an animated talking teddy bear toy that uses ChatGPT to generate children's stories. I took it for an early test run and bedtime got strange. Bridget Carey is an award-winning reporter who ...

A yoga-loving teddy bear that was created to help children achieve inner zen is finding fame on social media thanks to its ability to contort its body like a skilled yogi. The Meddy Teddy may look ...

Twenty-five-year-old Alyssa Karpinski estimates she owns between 150 and 160 Build-A-Bears. She has been collecting since she was little, and made her first bear with her dad. “I remember everything ...

It turns out there are lots of sharp elbows in the plush toy business. Build-A-Bear and the makers of Squishmallows are facing off in federal court. Kelly Toys and its Berkshire Hathaway-controlled ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It turns out there are lots of sharp elbows in the plush toy business. Build-A-Bear and the makers of Squishmallows are facing off in federal court. Kelly Toys and its Berkshire ...

More than four years after Costco’s first store in the country caused a stir, shoppers in the southern metropolis of Shenzhen this week flocked to the US retailer’s latest outlet on Chinese shores.

A Walmart employee shared just how skeeved out she’s getting by a new toy being offered at the retailer. Officially, it’s called Thready Bear, but the Walmart worker, along with her viewers, are ...

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