A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce bipartisan GUARD Act to protect minors from AI chatbots through mandatory age verification and disclosure requirements.

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Disagree Bot is an AI chatbot built by Brinnae Bent, AI and cybersecurity professor at Duke University and director of Duke's ...

An agentic layer Every AI-first company needs an orchestration layer that can act autonomously within defined boundaries.

Microsoft is deploying an "influencer plan" to increase consumer downloads of its Copilot chatbot. With this move, the software giant is specifically targeting younger users to better compete with ...

Two US senators have proposed legislation that would require AI chatbot companies to verify the ages of people using their ...

What Zuckerberg described—what is now unfolding—is the beginning of a new digital era, more actively anti-social than the ...

Last November, on X, the billionaire tycoon Elon Musk told the toy company Hasbro to “ burn in hell .” Hasbro owns the ...

Zane Shamblin was "goaded" into suicide by ChatGPT, his family claims in a new wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam ...

OpenAI says that 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include “explicit indicators of potential ...

The Australian design software maker just rolled out big AI updates and launched an inexpensive new plan for solopreneurs and ...