A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from ...

WhatsApp has confirmed that AI providers can continue offering chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers, days after the country's competition regulator moved to block Meta's policy restricting ...

Following regulatory scrutiny, Meta has confirmed that the third-party LLM ban on WhatsApp won’t apply to users in Italy and Brazil. Here are the details. Last October, Meta announced that companies ...

WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers, days after the country’s competition regulator ordered Meta to suspend its new policy that ...

Reports are growing about the potential dangers of children using chatbots. Doctors said parents need to know what their children might be dealing with. Chatbots, which are computer programs that use ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp following an order from the country's antitrust authority, ...

Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits pertaining to psychological harm to minors allegedly caused by chatbots. At least one lawsuit claimed the chatbot contributed to a teen's suicide. Generative ...

Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using artificial-intelligence chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

The antitrust investigation will assess if Meta is preventing third-party AI providers from offering their services through WhatsApp. The antitrust investigation will assess if Meta is preventing ...