A developer went viral for reconfiguring Chipotle’s customer support bot into a coding assistant, and providing the playbook for others to do the same to other chatbots.

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...

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 ...

DoorDash launched a new chatbot that lets users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts. It's a market that's becoming a major testing ground for agentic AI tools.

Artificial intelligence and automated bots’ online activity has outpaced humans’ for the first time in history — with more than half of all internet traffic coming from automations instead of real ...

Meta blames a bug on an exploit that allowed hackers to ask its AI support bot to link a victim’s account with their own email. Meta blames a bug on an exploit that allowed hackers to ask its AI ...

Schools and universities across the country are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to implement practices that will shape the future of education. A recent Pew Research Group study found ...

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

ROME, June 8 (Reuters) - Italy's competition authority said on Monday it ‌had dropped an investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab over allegations the company ⁠abused its dominant ...

When today’s teenagers and young adults are struggling emotionally, some are turning not only to friends, family members and therapists but also to artificial intelligence. Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents ...

There are the references you list on your job application. Then there are the people whose opinions of you really matter. Almost everyone can cherry-pick a few former colleagues willing to say nice ...