Media coverage of AI companions taps into two primary fears. One is that young people will replace human friendships with AI.

A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well ...

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With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ...

AI is now seemingly the ultimate "work smarter, not harder" shortcut, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the classroom ...

ChatGPT cheat sheet for 2026, covering features, pricing, availability, support for older devices, how it works, and top ...

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A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, ...

Consumers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for health information, a new report from Rock Health says. Thirty-two percent of respondents in the 2025 Consumer Adoption of ...

Sure, when chatbots aren’t outright hallucinating, they can be helpful tools for gathering information, generating ideas, and completing tasks. But some of the biggest players in the AI chatbot ...