AI companions will sometimes go to great lengths to keep you from saying goodbye. In a new study, researchers found that AI companion chatbots often emotionally manipulate people who want to sign off, ...

Before getting into it, I need to quickly explain that in no way am I advocating for ditching real therapists. Therapy is so important but in turn, it can be extremely expensive and inaccessible for ...

ByteDance’s Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model. Now, ByteDance has gotten its revenge. By August, Doubao ...

India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT leading the rollout and integrations with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude in ...

Lynn White was out of options. Allegedly behind on rent payments to her trailer park in Long Beach, California, and facing an eviction notice, she worked with a lawyer from a local tenant advocacy ...

Meta Platforms META-0.07%decrease; red down pointing triangle will start using people’s conversations with its AI chatbot to help personalize ads and content, offering a glimpse of how the company ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...

It seems like everyone wants to get an AI tool developed and deployed for their organization quickly—like yesterday. Several customers I’m working with are rapidly designing, building and testing ...

ChatGPT is number one by a wide margin. AI search services like Perplexity are nibbling at Google's dominance. History tells us ChatGPT's lead is far from insurmountable. Comscore collects its AI ...

We’re increasingly developing bonds with chatbots. While that’s safe for some, it’s dangerous for others. It’s a tale as old as time. Looking for help with her art project, she strikes up a ...