A nonprofit consumer research group found that developers can sidestep age safeguards on major AI platforms like OpenAI and Google in building AI toys for kids.

Most major tech companies have age restrictions on their powerful chatbots, but that hasn’t stopped some toy companies from claiming to use OpenAI and Google to power their products ...

New research shows AI companies are doing virtually nothing to monitor how their chatbots are used in children’s toys.

Millennial and Gen Z parents are introducing their Gen Alpha kids to VHS tapes, landline-style phones, and Barbie dolls.

With its twirly cord and landline-like features, the Tin Can is giving kids a crash course in phone etiquette. For example: Talk!

A wind phone can be highly therapeutic for grieving children and teens as it helps them feel connected to a late parent.

To anyone who grew up in the ’90s or ’00s, Toy Story and its sequels are classics. Now, more than 30 years after the original movie’s release, Toy Story 5 is coming on June 19 to comfort the kids of ...

A few months ago, while trying to juggle the intricacies of my 10-year-old daughter Alice’s after-school schedule, my wife and I bought her a cellphone. The purchase felt fraught, like the 21st ...

Parents at Nativity Parish School in Leawood will give students landline phones to teach them how to listen and communicate. Getty Images Not long ago, childhood sounded like this: a phone ringing in ...

A company that makes toys powered by artificial intelligence exposed snippets of thousands of conversations its toys had with children, according to Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard ...

It might be near impossible to be a kid these days without a smartphone, but AT&T wants to offer parents a decent compromise. The wireless carrier launched its AmiGO Jr. Phone, which combines Samsung ...