Talking toys have relied on scripts until very recently. Pull a string or press a button, and a doll recites a line ...

The rare Japanese toy with a robot driver and a robot passenger seems to have been influenced by American convertibles of the ...

After speaking with numerous experts and testing several AI toys firsthand, I've learned to proceed with extreme caution in ...

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are pressing several companies about the sale of AI-powered ...

Fears of risks to children's health and development have two U.S. senators sounding an alarm on toys that use artificial ...

NBC News reported last week that AI-powered toys gave answers about sex and Chinese Communist Party talking points in tests.

The UK’s most-wanted toys for Christmas 2025 have been revealed — from a parent-controlling helmet to interactive Stitch dolls and creative craft kits. The UK’s top 15 Christmas toys predicted to be ...

Is the age of toys really over? That is the fateful question posed by the new teaser trailer for “Toy Story 5,” released by Pixar on Tuesday, which picks up on the familiar parenting conundrum about ...

Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine. By Richard Sandomir In the early 1960s, the toy inventor Burt Meyer went to an ...

The new tests illustrate that the alarming behavior from the AI-powered toys can be found in a much larger set of products than previously known.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It feels like yesterday that I was begging my mom for a Furbie—yes, the "talking" creature that could ...

The latest Trouble in Toyland report from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund has identified a troubling new category of risk for children: artificial intelligence. In its 40th annual investigation of toy ...