Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

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 ...

What is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers to these questions, from ...

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 ...

Like almost anyone eventually unmoored by it, J. started using ChatGPT out of idle curiosity in cutting-edge AI tech. “The first thing I did was, maybe, write a song about, like, a cat eating a pickle ...

When you're a business owner, it's hard to be everywhere at once — even though, your venture kind of demands it of you, especially if you're a solopreneur. Luckily, there are lots of tools on the ...

ChatGPT is a lot simpler to use than you think, and there are many ways to make it work well for you. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest ...

In the not-so-distant past, the idea of having a meaningful conversation, let alone a relationship, with artificial intelligence (AI) would have sounded like science fiction. Now, it’s just another ...

Grok 3 has caught up with its competitors, but is it enough to convert ChatGPT users? Credit: Matteo Della Torre / NurPhoto / Getty Images Now that Grok 3 from Elon Musk's xAI is officially live, how ...