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Hey chatbot, is this true? AI ‘factchecks’ sow misinformation
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Hey chatbot, is this true? AI ‘factchecks’ sow misinformation

by Anuj Chopra with Sumit Dubey in New Delhi and Maria Clara Pestre in Rio de Janeiro AI chatbots are increasingly used for...

Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’
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Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

This image from the xAI website shows a search field for the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok on Thursday, May 5, 2025. Credit: AP...

Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move
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Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Google has announced it will roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to children under the age...

Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
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Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last week, Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp—unveiled a new “personal artificial intelligence (AI).” Powered by...

What happens when a companion chatbot crosses the line?
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What happens when a companion chatbot crosses the line?

Credit: Drexel University Over the last five years, the use of highly personalized artificial intelligence chatbots—called companion chatbots—designed to act as friends, therapists...

Google’s chatbot is now showing ads when talking to AI startups
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Google’s chatbot is now showing ads when talking to AI startups

Chatbot interactions could soon be serving you related Google ads too ChatGPT and others are snaffling Google’s search market dominance Its dominance has...

Google places ads inside chatbot conversations with AI startups
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Google places ads inside chatbot conversations with AI startups

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google’s ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots—part of Alphabet Inc.’s efforts to...

Claude tipped to get its answer to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode soon – is adding an AI voice to a chatbot yet another tick box exercise?
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Claude tipped to get its answer to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode soon – is adding an AI voice to a chatbot yet another tick box exercise?

Anthropic is expected to launch a Claude voice mode A report from Bloomberg states that the voice mode will launch with three voices...

An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks
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An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks

Credit: Kathryn Conrad/Better Images of AI, CC BY In 2023, the World Health Organization declared loneliness and social isolation as a pressing health...