State Sen. Andrew Gounardes is drafting legislation that would ban the sale of artificial intelligence-enabled toys for kids – a real thing that currently exists, despite the southern Brooklyn ...

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, ...

You might be trusting AI in ways that can cause serious trouble. I've tested chatbots extensively, and these are 10 tasks I'd never let them handle. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...

Tesla is rolling out xAI's Grok chatbot to more of its customers' cars, this time in the U.K. and Europe. Elon Musk's AI company (now owned by SpaceX) is facing a myriad of regulatory probes in Europe ...

New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the "Summarize with AI" button that's being increasingly placed on websites in ...

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

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 ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are increasingly permeating children’s – and adults’ — lives. The bill follows ...

Chatbot developers are facing pressure from state lawmakers and consumer advocates to limit the technology’s potential harm amid a swell of private litigation and legislative activity. Technology and ...

Some people who say AI chatbots upended their lives and the lives of their loved ones, are now turning to each other for support. Around the world, people are talking to AI chatbots, and these chats ...