Google Denies Report It Plans to Bring Ads to AI Chatbot Gemini
Google denied a Monday (Dec. 8) report by AdWeek that the tech giant plans to bring ads to…
The creator of an AI therapy app shut it down after deciding it’s too dangerous. Here’s why he thinks AI chatbots aren’t safe for mental health
Mental health concerns linked to the use of AI chatbots have been dominating the headlines. One person who’s…
Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat
Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction…
Use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to Organize Your Life With Scheduled Actions
The developers of the big generative AI chatbots are continuing to push out new features at a rapid…
Goldman Sachs says we’re not in an AI bubble, and its young multimillionaire clientele are all-in on AI-energy investments and healthcare innovations
Last month, more than 100 young wealthy founders, inheritors, and industry leaders flew in from all around the…
4 Lessons Learned From Global Digital Health AI Chatbot Failures
Sadly, countless health chatbot projects crash and burn across low- and middle-income countries each year. It’s not about…
Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don’t Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot
Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of…
Amazon says its AI shopping assistant Rufus is so effective it’s on pace to pull in an extra $10 billion in sales
In case you were unsure about Amazon’s ability to monetize artificial intelligence, “the everything store” assigned a staggering…
Why AI Breaks Bad | WIRED
Still, the models are improving much faster than the efforts to understand them. And the Anthropic team admits…
Microsoft is distancing itself from longtime partner OpenAI, shunning erotica chatbots: ‘Just not a service we’re going to provide,’ AI CEO says
Microsoft will not emulate the strategies of Elon Musk’s xAI or Sam Altman’s OpenAI in creating “simulated erotica”…
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
I recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing…
How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but…