My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

Dark Turn Yet another AI companion company is facing concerns over its AI chatbots encouraging human users to engage with ...

Competition from China’s DeepSeek has accelerated the rollout of artificial intelligence assistants that show their “thinking” when answering queries.

OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University's 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty members ...

A private investigator says young adults conditioned to life online are increasingly clueless about catfishing and other love and sex scams. Some grifters are now using artificial intelligence to do ...

The teenage victim of a fatal shark attack north of Brisbane has been identified. 17-year-old Charlize Zmuda was attacked off ...

Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) introduced Senate Bill 243, which aims to protect children and other impressionable users from the addictive, isolating, and influential aspects of ...

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

Joanne Hadjia has revealed that she saved her baby son by asking an AI chatbot what was wrong with him. The singer, who rose ...

Republican Josh Hawley and Democrat Elizabeth Warren blame Silicon Valley for export-ban loopholes that China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek exploited. The developer of the chatbot that shocked U.S ...

Many credit the newfound success of DeepSeek to its talented team member, Luo Fuli, celebrated as an "AI prodigy" in China.