Your next toy or game may be able to converse with you. Mattel, the El Segundo toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, said Thursday that it's teaming up with OpenAI, which created popular chatbot ...

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After Mattel and OpenAI announced a partnership that would result in an AI product marketed to kids, a consumer rights advocacy group is warning that the collaboration may endanger children. It ...

Barbie maker Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to develop generative AI-powered toys and games, as the new technology disrupts a wide range of industries, Mattel announced Thursday. Mattel billed the ...

EXCLUSIVE: (updated with more details) The sudden departure this week of Michelle Mendelovitz from running Mattel Television Studios looks to indicate the fun and games are over at the toy maker. With ...

More than six months after foreclosing an office building in El Segundo, insurer New York Life Insurance has sold the property to Mattel, adding to the toy maker’s footprint in the South Bay city.

Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz explains how he has transformed the maker of Barbie and Hot Wheels from a traditional toy ...

Toy-maker Mattel Inc. said late-Monday it plans to raise prices in the U.S. “where necessary” on some toys and take steps to rely less on China for production, while pausing its full-year outlook as ...