AI companionship is growing rapidly especially among minors. About one-third of U.S. teens report relying on an AI chatbot for emotional support. The trend has Washington state regulators sounding ...

Thematic analysis was performed using NVivo and interrater reliability was confirmed through Cohen κ. Results: The Assistants API outperformed both ChatGPT and Qwen, achieving a mean accuracy score of ...

Introduction: We propose a three-stage liberation decision framework (Stage-1 readiness, Stage-2 SBT success, Stage-3 extubation). While prior tools emphasize earlier stages, Stage-3—deciding whether ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people. Users have prompted the chatbot to to “digitally undress” those people and sometimes place ...

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” ...

The woman also let her ChatGPT subscription lapse, bringing an end to her relationship with the AI boyfriend Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and ...

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Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new ...

WASHINGTON/DETROIT, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Julie Yukari, a musician based in Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo taken by her fiancé to the social media site X just before midnight on New Year's Eve showing her ...

Kevin recently joined the hosts of “The Wirecutter Show” for a conversation about the artificial intelligence products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums ...

China's cybersecurity regulator on Saturday proposed rules to limit the ability of artificial intelligence to influence human emotions. The draft rules come just days after two Chinese AI chatbot ...