When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...

June 3 (Reuters) - An Instagram hack that saw attackers talk Meta's (META.O), opens new tab AI support chatbot into handing over access to high-profile accounts has exposed a critical flaw at the ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...

More young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice. For the new study, researchers conducted a nationally representative survey in November 2025. Just over 1,000 12- to 21-year-olds ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in ...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month ...

Compare ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta AI by strengths, use cases, integrations, and limits. There was a time when chatbots were clunky customer service tools ...

The state of Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI to stop the company's AI chatbots from posing as doctors and offering medical advice, in violation of state medical licensing rules. State officials ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

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 ...

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of ...

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...