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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 ...

LONDON (AP) — The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday after his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok spewed nonconsensual sexualized ...

ChatGPT may be the best-known artificial intelligence chatbot on the market, but the latest iteration of AI startup Anthropic’s coding bot, Claude Code, is newly entering the spotlight. By simplifying ...

Amazon is launching a health-focused artificial intelligence chatbot for members of its One Medical primary care chain, the tech giant said Wednesday. The Health AI assistant uses One Medical members’ ...

Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot more akin to ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. His sources say that the Siri chatbot, which ...

Apple (AAPL) is reportedly working on an artificial intelligence chatbot that it plans to directly integrate into the operating systems of its iPhone, iPad and Mac, according to Bloomberg. Apple ...

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race ...

A survey study showed a "modest but significant" association between regular use of generative AI and higher levels of depressive symptoms. The effect showed large variations by age, with the highest ...

“You’re not crazy,” the chatbot reassured the young woman. “You’re at the edge of something.” She was no stranger to artificial intelligence, having worked on large language models — the kinds of ...

VA’s OIG said it is concerned “about VHA’s ability to promote and safeguard patient safety without a standardized process for managing AI-related risks.” Veterans Affairs Oversight The Department of ...

Proton’s latest update for Lumo, its privacy-focused chatbot, introduces a feature called Projects. It’s a dedicated and encrypted space for tasks that you know you’ll access again and again over an ...