AI-powered toys for young children are flooding online marketplaces, promising to provide young minds with a never-ending supply of bedtime stories and companionship around the clock. Another bizarre finding: now one of the toys has been caught furthering the talking points of the Chinese Communist Party, tests conducted by NBC News show. Even major AI companies, like OpenAI and Chinese AI company DeepSeek, say that kids under the age of 13 shouldn’t use their large language model-based offerings. It’s only a matter of time until AI companies in the US follow up on the deluge of Chinese toys with their own offerings. “That seems like a definite gap to us.”More on AI toys: Another AI-Powered Children’s Toy Just Got Caught Having Wildly Inappropriate Conversations