Barbie-maker Mattel partners with OpenAI to make AI child’s play Toymaker and tech group team up to ‘bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences’

This made my jaw drop for half a second - then I remembered how hard Mattel went on turning its brands into NFTs a few years back #digitalkids #kidsonline
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Ariana Grande and Travis Scott Fortnite concerts at the heart of patent lawsuit headed to trial Fortnite’s concert series is at the center of this suit

See, this I find interesting as it would seem to rest on the idea that for each of Fortnite's concerts, there is one 'original' instance and all others are replays - which is just not the temporal framework in which Fortnite instances exist #kidsmedia #digitalkids
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Parenting in 2025: Why We Hover, Plough, and Now… Have to Monitor the AI “Friends” in Our Kids’ Lives How Stranger Danger, Distrust in Authority, and AI Companions Are Shaping a New Era of Parental Anxiety

Hoverin’ parents, guilty hearts, AI friends in the dark—2025’s kids got the world in their rooms, but trust and safety feel further than ever. Blues for the modern family, playin’ on repeat. What can be done?
#Parenting2025 #DigitalKids #AIParenting #Bloop_mu
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The more I think about the Australian government's proposed ban on social media for under-16s, and the wider discourse surrounding youth media cultures, the more I'm convinced we need a family-abolitionist to media and tech regulation #digitalkids #kidsonline