AI chatbots for business have shifted from simple support tools to frontline revenue engines that engage visitors the moment they land on a site. By combining natural language processing with ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are increasingly permeating children’s – and adults’ — lives. The bill follows ...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ...

Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

Ask ChatGPT or another generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot whether the movie Good Will Hunting includes a scene referencing Adolf Hitler. Most likely, it will correctly state that the film ...

Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. Credit...Fabio Consoli Supported by By Gina Kolata When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server. The sudden rise of a huge network of ...

GEM Hospital in Coimbatore launched Dr. GEM, an advanced AI - powered cancer chat-bot, on February 3, 2026 (Tuesday), marking a milestone in digital oncology on the occasion of World Cancer Day.

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