Curio, a Redwood City startup, sells stuffed animals, including a talking rocket plushie called Grok that’s voiced by artist Grimes, who has children with billionaire Elon Musk. Bondu, a San Francisco ...

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today, they do not talk back in a child’s imagination; some talk through built-in artificial intelligence chatbots.

Replit tackles the slop problem through a mix of specialized prompting, classification features built into its design systems ...

But at least two advocacy groups say AI toys could be unsafe and are warning parents to proceed with caution — or avoid them ...