Psychologist Nathaniel R. Strenger writes that overuse of compliant AI companions erodes a healthy sense of alterity, or otherness. iSTOCK / Getty Images England’s eternally quotable lay theologian, ...

Major artificial intelligence companies may have age policies in place to restrict the use of their models by children, but that isn't stopping a growing number of developers from using generative AI ...

With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health questions. In ...

“Ed” was supposed to be an AI-powered “educational friend” for Los Angeles schoolkids, telling them how to do their homework, what time school let out and even where to go to college. But the flopped ...

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Shoppers using Sparky place orders that are, on average, 35% larger, CFO John David Rainey said on a conference call. Sarina Trangle started as a corporate news reporter in October 2024. She ...

Qwen3.5 comes in an open-weight and hosted API version, with the company advertising improvements in performance and costs from previous versions. Qwen3.5 supports new agentic capabilities and is ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...

AI companies providing chatbots are facing stricter laws to protect children online in the UK, the country's prime minister has announced. Keir Starmer said "no platform gets a free pass." The ...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands ...

We look at when you can trust A.I. with your health, and when you can’t. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. For hypochondriacs, A.I. chatbots are a windfall. Ask the computer a few ...

As AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot get better at engaging in conversation and picking up on emotional cues, millions of Americans are interacting with them in everyday ...