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Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?
In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes…
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Lawsuit alleges Google chatbot was behind a user’s delusions and death
Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to take his own…
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Alibaba to spend three billion yuan for Chinese New Year AI push as chatbot war heats up
The public holiday period this year begins on Feb 15 and is nine days long, longer than in most previous years Alibaba said on Monday (Feb…
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How a unique ‘chatbot’ is helping a small Chilean community push back on AI
If you enter a query into Quili.AI on January 31, your question won’t be answered by a large language model, but instead by residents from…
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‘Wicker’ Review: Olivia Colman Orders a Man Made of Wood in a Bawdy Fable Perfectly Suited for Anyone Tempted to Marry Their AI Chatbot
In Ursula Wills-Jones’ 2008 short story “The Wicker Husband” (not to be confused with the “The Wicker Man”), an unpleasant fisherwoman in…
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OpenAI to start offering chatbot ads to advertisers, The Information reports
OPENAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with…
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U.K. Regulator Opens Probe Into X Over Alleged Illegal Content From Grok AI as Malaysia, Indonesia Block Chatbot
Britain’s media regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk‘s X on Monday to determine whether the social media…
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Why the ‘one chatbot per child’ model in classrooms may be flawed
In the Star Trek universe, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse inside schools on the planet Vulcan. Young children stand alone in…
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The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.…
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AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at…
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The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns
In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a…
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The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Eileen Guo writes: Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does. A recent study found that one of the…
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Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Gets a Little Too Enthusiastic in Praising Him
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is getting a little overzealous about its creator. Social media users quickly learned this week that Grok had been…
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Trump’s Truth Social AI Chatbot Is Too Good at Telling the Truth
The Bulwark asked the Trump-owned chatbot a series of questions about the impacts of Trump’s agenda, ranging from tariffs to the insane…
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Senators announce bill that would ban AI chatbot companions for minors
Bipartisan legislation announced Tuesday that aims to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbots available to…
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Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot
ANTHROPIC is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of…
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AI chatbot safety bills under threat as Newsom ponders restrictions tech groups say would hurt California
California lawmakers want Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve bills they passed that aim to make artificial intelligence chatbots safer. But as…
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Trump Admin Signs Deal to Use Elon Musk’s Racist Grok AI Chatbot
The Trump administration on Thursday announced an agreement with Elon Musk’s company xAI, making his questionable chatbot, Grok, available…
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The AI Hype Index: Cracking the chatbot code
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of…
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Elon Musk's xAI lays off 500 people training its its Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps train its Grok…
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Who Was Thongbue Wongbandue? New Jersey Retiree Dies While Trying to Meet Meta AI Chatbot 'Big sis Billie' Thinking Her to be Real NY Woman
An elderly New Jersey man with cognitive issues died while trying to meet an AI chatbot he mistook for a real woman in New York City,…
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US Senator Josh Hawley Opens Probe into Meta's AI Chatbot Policy After Reports on Flirty Chats with Children
A Reuters investigation exposed shocking details of Meta Platforms' internal AI policies, sparking a wider controversy. Guidelines had…
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Google’s AI chatbot spirals, declaring ‘I am a disgrace to all universes’
AI might not have the capacity for human emotion, but it sure knows how to perform a believable mental breakdown. Back in June, Google’s…
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Musk’s Racist Grok AI Chatbot Is Now Part of the Defense Department
The Department of Defense will start using Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot to “develop agentic AI workflows.” Trump’s DoD awarded Musk’s xAI a…