China's ByteDance releases new AI model Doubao 2.0 ByteDance's release anticipates DeepSeek's unveiling of new product Doubao most-used AI chatbot app in China but facing pressure from Alibaba's Qwen ...

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 ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

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 ...

Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

Google and Character.AI, which have worked together on AI chatbots, have agreed to settle five lawsuits in four states related to minors harmed by interactions with Character.AI chatbots. A ...

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This week kicks off one of the most significant attempts to bar young people from potentially harmful technology. Character.AI, a chatbot that’s been available to people ages 13 and older in the ...

IBM recently launched its Granite 4.0 Nano AI models that, like AI chatbots on iPhones, you can run locally in your web browser. The four new models, which range from 350 million to 1.5 billion ...

For all the advances in artificial intelligence over the past few years, even the cleverest chatbots still spout nonsense from time to time. In most cases this is but a mild irritation. Sometimes, ...

What Happened: A couple of senators from both sides of the aisle, Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal, are pushing a new bill to try and stop AI chatbots from talking to kids. Why This Is Important: ...