AI-powered toys and stuffed animals could be having wildly inappropriate, if not dangerous, conversations with your children.

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A child asks a toy a question and gets an answer back—not a recorded phrase, but a new sentence, formed on the spot. That is the shift now happening in toy stores. A growing number of stuffed animals ...