A new survey in the UK shows a troubling rise in teenage boys forming deep bonds with what they call an 'AI girlfriend'.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry’s power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The ...

When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Facing major budget shortfalls, Denver is cutting back hours and staff for its call center that assists residents with city services and looking to leverage an artificial intelligence ...

In late 2024, Amazon introduced Rufus, a generative AI chatbot that helps people shop. It was a curious move for Amazon since the company already has Alexa, which has become a household name at this ...

Robots.txt is a small text file that sits on every website. It tells search engines and bots what they’re allowed to see and what they’re not, working like a digital “do not enter” sign. In the early ...

AI bots outpace Microsoft Bing in traffic, but send almost no visitors, driving up publisher costs and fueling new content access battles. Google sends publishers 831x more visitors than AI systems, ...

Whoopi Goldberg definitely doesn’t support the idea of AI bots replacing actors in movies, but she’s also not threatened by them just yet. During Monday’s episode of “The View,” the ABC host explained ...

Long gone are the days of slowly sifting through dense pages of information for answers to mind-bending questions or remaining up-to-date with scientific discoveries. Now, artificial-intelligence bots ...

AI delusions, chatbot psychosis, AI-induced religious mania… The phenomenon goes by many names, but the common thread is the same: someone starts talking to an AI chatbot, the conversation turns ...

Google is expanding the use of AI in Keep notes. We spotted an under-development feature that could utilize AI to generate titles for notes in Google Keep. Google Keep already lets you generate lists ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. A few weeks before my daughter’s fourth birthday, I stumbled across an AI party planner called CelebrateAlly. “Looking to plan a themed party, a surprise bash, ...