With the advent of AI-mediated APIs, the era of manually hard-coding every integration between every microservice may be ...

This week’s cybersecurity recap covers Firefox and Chrome bugs, EDR-killer tools, a TV botnet, an OpenBSD flaw, Android ...

AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train their AI. Others sell that data to advertisers. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults are turning to AI chatbots for advice when they’re sad, angry, nervous or stressed, according to a new study. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription ...

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 ...

Dr. Matthew Leahy, a licensed psychologist, treats adolescents who've developed such an intense relationship with an artificial intelligence chatbot that they stop confiding in their parents.

Last year, a survey from Common Sense Media found 72 percent of teens have used an AI companion at least once. Half are regular users. And it’s not just kids. A 2025 Harvard Business Review article ...

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 like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...