Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. Since Sears is still a trusted ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Sakana AI has launched its first consumer-facing chatbot, marking a shift from being a corporate-focused artificial intelligence startup toward becoming a provider of general services ...

Much like Sora, OpenAI says it’s pausing plans for ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ to focus on core products. Much like Sora, OpenAI says it’s pausing plans for ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ to focus on core ...

Apple is planning a complete overhaul of Siri in iOS 27, introducing all of the promised features shown off in iOS 18, plus more. Apple is going to launch a full chatbot version of ‌Siri‌ to better ...

We explain the implications of A.I. being so sycophantic. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. My colleague Tom was on the train home the other day, seated between two commuters focused on ...

Apple plans to allow third-party AI chatbots to integrate with Siri in iOS 27, reports Bloomberg. Apple already has a partnership with OpenAI that lets ‌Siri‌ hand questions off to ChatGPT, but Apple ...

Large language model (LLM) chatbots have a tendency toward flattery. If you ask a model for advice, it is 49 percent more likely than a human, on average, to affirm your existing point of view rather ...

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter ...

An iron law of running a large internet service is that your users will figure out how to use it to share, consume, or make porn. Explicit adult chatbots preceded ChatGPT by many years, and as soon as ...