Joe Alary’s chatbot addiction nearly cost him his job, his savings and some of his long-term relationships. The 57-year-old is now rebuilding his life. Alary, who is divorced and lives alone, had ...

Amazon is axing its Rufus chatbot and making its Alexa assistant the centerpiece of its artificial intelligence shopping strategy. The company introduced Alexa for Shopping, an e-commerce bot that can ...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month ...

An ex-con who’d just been released on parole was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars for sucker-punching an FBI agent and sending the lawman sprawling onto a Brooklyn sidewalk Darren McKenzie, ...

EMA research shows chatbot-based AIOps is losing ground to agentic AI, with collaborative, proactive models delivering faster operations, fewer errors, and stronger results. New research from ...

Google is testing an “Agent” tab inside Gemini Enterprise. The new setup lets you create, manage, and deploy multiple AI agents for different workflows. The new interface includes a “Tasks” dashboard ...

The Google ADK is a capable and mostly complete framework for developing agents, with support for multiple agent types, multi-agent architectures, and multiple programming languages. The Google Agent ...

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer ...

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...

Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...

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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 ...