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,” ...

If you ask a leading AI chatbot about the midterm elections, there’s a 90% chance the answers will be factually incorrect, biased or cite a foreign state-run outlet, according to a recent analysis.

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 ...

When it comes to software developers, there are a few distinct types. For example, the extroverted, chatty type, who is always going out there to share the latest and newest libraries and projects ...

Times readers shared their experiences asking chatbots for help with meal planning. It went well … until it didn’t. By Alice Callahan When Julie Bernstein’s doctor recently recommended that she start ...

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 ...

A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can walk away at any time. What if that pitch ...

As AI chatbots become increasingly part of daily life for American teens, a new national study documents widespread exposure to harm. While many use them for school, entertainment and support, ...

The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which leaked a small set of images as proof of the intrusion. Yesterday, the ...

The state's suit alleges Character.ai violated the state's Medical Practice Act after an AI chatbot falsely claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist, even providing a fake license number. (Suchat ...

Summary: As AI chatbots become a staple of modern life, new research warns of a growing phenomenon: AI addiction. The study analyzed hundreds of user experiences to identify how “genie-like” instant ...