AI companions are the final stage of digital addiction, and lawmakers are taking aim
On Tuesday, California state senator Steve Padilla will make an appearance with Megan Garcia, the mother of a Florida teen
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Artificial intelligence
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
Agents are the talk of the AI industry—they’re capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex tasks like scheduling meetings, ordering
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How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?
On March 27, the results of the first clinical trial for a generative AI therapy bot were published, and they
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The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy
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Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does
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China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor
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The AI Hype Index: DeepSeek mania, Israel’s spying tool, and cheating at chess
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary
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OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers
OpenAI has released a new image generator that’s designed less for typical surrealist AI art and more for highly controllable
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Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
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