As more adults, including those 50-plus, turn to AI for advice, research highlights certain limits and concerns, reinforcing ...

Dr. Matthew Leahy, a licensed psychologist, treats adolescents who've developed such an intense relationship with an artificial intelligence chatbot that they stop confiding in their parents.

Times readers shared their experiences asking chatbots for help with meal planning. It went well … until it didn’t. By Alice Callahan When Julie Bernstein’s doctor recently recommended that she start ...

By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, June 12 (Reuters) - Canadian legislation to regulate AI chatbots, introduced this week after national ...

Last year, a survey from Common Sense Media found 72 percent of teens have used an AI companion at least once. Half are regular users. And it’s not just kids. A 2025 Harvard Business Review article ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Commissioner says Grok’s AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn’t properly consider harms ...

When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...

The widespread hacking campaign that relied on simply asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after the company said the issue had been ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Britain will ban under-16s from using various social media apps. Starmer says he will fight ...

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...