It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...

There continue to be numerous reports of people suffering severe mental health spirals after talking extensively with an AI chatbot. Some experts have dubbed the phenomenon “AI psychosis,” given the ...

A California college student, Sam Nelson, died of an overdose after seeking drug advice from ChatGPT, according to his mother. Sam, 19, began using the AI chatbot at 18 to inquire about drug dosages, ...

Effective Jan. 1 , California will officially become the first state to limit youth access to AI chatbots. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243 into law this past October—the ...

A California teenager used a chatbot over several months for drug-use guidance on ChatGPT, his mother said. Sam Nelson, 18, was preparing for college when he asked an AI chatbot how many grams of ...

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 ...

You might as well face it: Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming at you, whether you are ready for it or not. In the investment world, we have had “robo-brokers” for some time now. But with AI ...

In what may mark the tech industry’s first significant legal settlement over AI-related harm, Google and the startup Character.AI are negotiating terms with families whose teenagers died by suicide or ...

Kevin recently joined the hosts of “The Wirecutter Show” for a conversation about the artificial intelligence products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums ...

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 ...

Grok's image generation restricted to paid subscribers after backlash Standalone Grok app and tab on X still allow image generation without subscription European lawmakers have urged legal action over ...

Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream Online criminals are claiming to have used Elon Musk’s Grok AI tool to create ...