If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ...

A new social network created specifically for AI chatbots has sparked strange — and potentially alarming — behavior among the bots interacting there. According to The Washington Post, citing evidence ...

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 ...

If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...

A tool that has helped to transform modern social-science research is under threat thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers are warning that a wave of chatbots impersonating people could corrupt ...

More than 40 million people daily turn to ChatGPT for health information, according to OpenAI. Artificial intelligence chatbots can help patients understand medical information, but they can also ...

Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

AI chatbots have become a big part of all of our lives since they burst onto the scene more than three years ago. ChatGPT, for example, says it has around 700 million weekly active users, many of whom ...

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 ...