Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. Rudwall’s ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

GitHub has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to the set of models available in GitHub Copilot Chat, and the model is now selectable directly inside Microsoft developers' primary tools: Visual Studio ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

Brace yourselves, for your cozy little conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT are about to be stuffed with ads. At least, that’s the findings of a software engineer who dug through the code of an ...

Update, November 8, 9:46 a.m. ET: The GitHub repository and its forks have been taken down. The original story follows below. Just hours after Apple launched a revamped web interface for the App Store ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was federally charged for setting the blaze that eventually became the massive and deadly Palisades Fire, ...

Meta will soon use what people tell its artificial intelligence chatbot to get even better at selling them things. The company said on Wednesday that users’ chats and interactions with Meta AI will ...

Advances in AI technology have ushered in a new era of digital romance, where people are forming intimate emotional connections with chatbots. For many, these AI companions are a crucial lifeline, ...

Editor's take: Anyone who has tried meeting someone online knows that dating services are often a waste of time – or worse, a magnet for the wrong type of "fans" in your life. Facebook Dating began as ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has introduced legislation aimed at protecting minors from potentially harmful interactions with AI companion chatbots, following reports that chatbots have ...