Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself.

The lawsuits led to more scrutiny over whether tech companies are doing enough to safeguard young people from the risks posed ...

Generative AI is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Large language models like ChatGPT can help answer questions, write ...

Loneliness is rising, and many are turning to AI companions for comfort. But what do we lose when technology soothes the ...

Learn to code’ is dead. So what the heck should you actually teach your kids in the age of AI? - IN FOCUS: Holly Baxter asks ...

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The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are a breeze to create using Microsoft Copilot Studio, and almost just as easy to manipulate into divulging sensitive corporate data. Despite broad security ...

Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers. Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable. Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy. At Open ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

Driving and unsure of what route to take? Grok may now be able to help. As part of their 2025 holiday update, Tesla announced that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok—Musk’s stab at LLMs—will now be able to ...