An artificial-intelligence startup and Google have agreed to settle several lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with the startup’s chatbot, ...

The AI era has been dominated by ChatGPT. It seems, however, that Google's Gemini has finally found its footing. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people. Users have prompted the chatbot to to “digitally undress” those people and sometimes place ...

Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had become locked in an increasingly delusional conversation with OpenAI’s ...

Like almost anyone eventually unmoored by it, J. started using ChatGPT out of idle curiosity in cutting-edge AI tech. “The first thing I did was, maybe, write a song about, like, a cat eating a pickle ...

ChatGPT is a lot simpler to use than you think, and there are many ways to make it work well for you. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

When you're a business owner, it's hard to be everywhere at once — even though, your venture kind of demands it of you, especially if you're a solopreneur. Luckily, there are lots of tools on the ...