For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are increasingly permeating children’s – and adults’ — lives. The bill follows ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ...

Chatbots can sound reassuring and comforting. They're designed to. But they aren't trained to be mental health providers. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Alibaba's artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen temporarily stopped issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering a new campaign to promote the tool's capabilities ...

Amazon is making a louder, more deliberate move into the fast-moving world of conversational AI. While the company has spent years building Alexa into a household name, the market has shifted: ...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands ...

Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

Curious about AI chatbots but don’t know where to start? ChatGPT and Gemini are two of the best, and I'm here to help you choose between them based on my extensive testing. I’ve been writing about ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When Olivia Dreizen Howell was accused of sounding like an AI chatbot, her reaction was as human as it ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...