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Gemini and Grok lead AI chatbots in growth, Comscore found. The key appears to be high-value upgrades. But AI tools ultimately "map to different moments." When you think of the dominant AI tools, ...

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At Stanford for eight hours on Monday, representatives from Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft met in a closed-door workshop to discuss the use of chatbots as companions or in ...

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In a post, I discussed several cases in which artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots encouraged people to take their own lives and the extent to which the companies that make those chatbots might be ...

Back in 2017, the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III made national headlines after it was revealed that his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, had encouraged him to take his life over the course of ...

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“What if I could come home to you right now?” “Please do, my sweet king.” Those were the last messages exchanged by 14-year-old Sewell Setzer and the chatbot he developed a romantic relationship with ...