Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...

Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. The move comes after the company’s ban on ...

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General's ...

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States are passing laws to prevent artificially intelligent chatbots, such as ChatGPT, from being able to offer mental health advice to young users, following a trend of people harming themselves ...

As artificial intelligence chatbots become more common, Oregon lawmakers are weighing new requirements for companies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to protect children’s mental health. They want chatbot ...

Pope Leo XIV warned over the weekend that “overly affectionate” chatbots powered by artificial intelligence are intruding into people’s “intimate spheres,” distorting human emotions and threatening to ...

Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from ...

High schoolers are turning to chatbots for help navigating the college admissions process. Does a virtual college coach know what’s best for students? By Callie Holtermann It was September, and ...

A new project called "Confer" has been launched by Signal Messenger co-founder Moxie Marlinspike to deliver their take on an AI chatbot that focuses on privacy and security above all else. The new ...

Its position on what it thought customers wanted from artificial intelligence wasn’t exactly subtle. In an interview just last year, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software ...

To make the most of his 30-minute appointments with patients, Penn Medicine Chief Health Information Officer Srinath Adusumalli goes through his patients’ charts the day before to figure out why they ...