Joe Alary’s chatbot addiction nearly cost him his job, his savings and some of his long-term relationships. The 57-year-old is now rebuilding his life. Alary, who is divorced and lives alone, had ...

The New York State Senate has advanced Senate Bill 7263, which would add a new Section 390-f to the General Business Law. The bill would impose liability on proprietors of AI-powered chatbots for ...

With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the ...

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Gabriel J.X. Dance ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Florida’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the company’s chatbot advised the man accused of killing two people in a shooting at ...

Google announced "personalized" image generation that allows users to connect their photos to Nano Banana. The company said users can ask Gemini to “create a claymation image of me and my family ...

Amid serious concerns about the safety and appropriateness of using xAI’s Grok chatbot within the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tells Fast Company that it’s “proud” to ...

Increasingly, teens and adults are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for companionship and emotional support, recent studies and surveys show. And so, mental health care providers should ...

Your chatbot doesn’t have feelings, but it may act like it does in ways that matter. New research into Claude AI emotions suggests these internal signals aren’t ...