Within two days of launching its AI companions in July 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful and seductive than ever. Users ...

An AI chatbot in Australia has been updated after it ranted at customers about its mother and mentioned other family members while they were doing their online shopping.

As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey in the UK has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the technology as ...

AI chatbots offer patient support but pose healthcare AI risks including misdiagnosis, privacy breaches, and biased recommendations, demanding oversight and caution.

This is new, and potentially much more powerful.

Users usually easily exit from AI chatbots. But what about when in a dire mental state? The AI might snag you. Should there ...

In its latest effort to address growing concerns about AI’s impact on young people, OpenAI on Thursday updated its guidelines for how its AI models should behave with users under 18, and published new ...

As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the technology as like one of ...

People with mental illness who use AI chatbots risk experiencing a worsening of their condition. This is shown by a new study published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The researchers ...

Or so it seems. In this new era of software that converses with us, does work for us, and pretends to befriend us comes a new era of anxiety.

AI tools are very good, but they're not perfect. For a lot of tasks, the gap between very good and perfect may not matter. It ...