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 ...

Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot — part of a plan to make money more directly from consumers ...

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 ...

Just one month into his new job, New York City mayor Mamdani is cracking down on more than just predatory landlords. Apparently, useless AI chatbots are also on his administration’s agenda. “The ...

Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. The move comes after the company’s ban on ...

Cloudflare (NET) shares had jumped 12% by noon trading on Tuesday, following reports of an AI chatbot running on Cloudflare's infrastructure that had gone viral. This followed Cloudflare's 10% run-up ...

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Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be "temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters ...

The era of clunky, script-bound chatbots that leave customers more frustrated than helped is arguably winding down. Telecom companies have spent years relying on decision-tree systems that fail at ...

Apple hasn't developed an AI chatbot for consumers, but it has been using them internally for some time now. Last year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman detailed a Veritas chatbot to test the new version of ...

Macworld reports that Apple has developed Enchanté, an internal ChatGPT-like AI assistant for employees that rolled out in November 2025. The secure chatbot serves as a centralized knowledge hub for ...