"Resilience", or ren (韧) in Chinese, has been chosen as China's character of the year, while the homegrown AI model "DeepSeek" is the phrase of the year for 2025, highlighting the country's persistent ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has upped Nadi Filsoof to partner and hired former BuzzFeed content producer Zack Evans for its recently-launched digital production and distribution business. Filsoof is ...

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For the past several months, I’ve been using a web-based music player I built called Underscore. It’s playing music for me right now. I recently revamped & improved it and thought it was time to show ...

EXCLUSIVE: Underscore Talent has created a comedy unit, with several signings secured on launch. The next-gen talent management biz will be led by Underscore partner Michael Green, the industry ...

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Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...

Main character syndrome and main character energy originated on social media to refer to a person who behaves as though the protagonist in the story of their life. Main character energy and main ...

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Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...