Just one month into his new job, New York City mayor Mamdani is cracking down on more than just predatory landlords. Apparently, useless AI chatbots are also on his administration’s agenda. “The ...

If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...

A tool that has helped to transform modern social-science research is under threat thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers are warning that a wave of chatbots impersonating people could corrupt ...

Zuckerberg favored being less restrictive on AI bots, internal Meta message says Meta 'declined to impose reasonable guardrails' - New Mexico attorney general Senior Meta official anticipated ...

Large language models (LLMs) can pass postgraduate medical examinations and help clinicians to make diagnoses, at least in controlled benchmarking tests. But are they useful in real-world settings, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some of the biggest crowds at Retail’s Big Show in New York this month were drawn not by retailers, but tech ...

The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and ...

In his message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, the American pontiff said, “Technology must serve the human person, not replace it.” Shortly after he was elected in May of 2025, the ...

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Last Wednesday, ...

Millions of people are forming emotional bonds with artificial intelligence chatbots — a problem that politicians need to take seriously, according to top scientists. The warning of a rise in AI bots ...

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction ...

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