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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out.The alien in...

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities....

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced...

How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application...

This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models

“‘Every AI for everyone’ is kind of our tagline,” says Gupta. “We have organized all the AI models we can find today.” Yupp’s...

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

“What counties do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need...

Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage

“Something like over 70 percent of pull requests are now Claude code written,” Krieger told me. As for what those engineers are...

Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

When Claude 3.7 Sonnet played the game, it ran into some challenges: It spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had...

Is She Really Mad at Me? Maybe ChatGPT Knows

Kate’s real-life therapist is not a fan of her ChatGPT use. “She's like, ‘Kate, promise me you'll never do that again. The last...

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots

Through the Bing APIs, Microsoft helped other search engines save on the cost and time of crawling billions of web pages and developing...

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

So, there's the training data. Then, there's the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across...

An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a...