An AI company based in Menlo Park is banning its chatbots for users under 18 years old following lawsuits against the company, which alleged that its chatbots drove several minors to die by suicide.

Frustrated by the medical system, some patients are turning to chatbots for help. At what cost? Credit...Pablo Delcan Supported by By Teddy Rosenbluth and Maggie Astor Wendy Goldberg thought her ...

Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) ...

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth? Credit...Julia Dufosse ...

Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...

A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks. A massive outage at content delivery ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has praised its ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Deborah Lee, Mississippi State University (THE CONVERSATION) Three years ago, if ...