Prosecutors in Florida have launched a criminal investigation into the artificial-intelligence company OpenAI, and whether the company’s chatbot ChatGPT was used to assist the suspect in a mass school ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are rapidly becoming a major source of emotional support and connection. But, while use of AI chatbots may feel helpful at first, long-term use can worsen ...

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI ...

Tesla began rolling out xAI's Grok AI chatbot in its cars in July 2025, which is still in beta mode. Tesla is not the only automaker adding AI assistants to vehicles. Volvo, Rivian, Mercedes, BMW and ...

This paper aims to: 1) synthesize current evidence on generative AI chatbot interventions targeting mental health issues, 2) quantify the effectiveness of these interventions via a meta-analysis of ...

Myra Cheng, a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, has spent a lot of time listening to undergraduates on campus. "They would tell me about how a lot of their peers are using AI for ...

Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add more artificial intelligence tools. The review site has upgraded its Yelp Assistant, an agentic AI chatbot, to ...

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of ...

Online review aggregator Yelp wants to harness artificial intelligence to make it easier for users to find information curated by other people. Although Yelp's users have always been able to dive into ...

Dr. DeSteno is a research psychologist who studies religious belief and practice. In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said ...

Google announced "personalized" image generation that allows users to connect their photos to Nano Banana. The company said users can ask Gemini to “create a claymation image of me and my family ...

Social media has demonstrated the power and profitability of how ever more personalized algorithms keep people engaged online, frequently spending more time than they wanted and making purchases they ...