DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...

Google AI has introduced a major breakthrough with TurboQuant, a system that reduces KV cache memory usage by up to 6x while improving chatbot efficiency during real-time conversations. This allows AI ...

As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. “Millions of people turn to ChatGPT with money-related questions, from ...

Using AI the wrong way can get you into all sorts of trouble. I would never trust a chatbot with these 10 things, and you shouldn't either. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games ...

Students who use AI tools extensively may struggle with knowledge retention, according to new research. Brazilian social scientist Andre Barcaui looked at two groups of students, one using ChatGPT as ...

Here’s the question nobody’s asking but everybody should be: When you ask an AI for the truth, whose truth are you getting? Researchers at MIT, the University of East Anglia and a dozen other ...