Chatting with people beats interactions with AI chatbots when it comes to reducing loneliness

More and more people are turning to AI chatbots as if they were close friends—venting about personal struggles, asking for ...

A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card.

New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble. A Vals AI employee using Claude Code to debug A.I. agents.Credit...Video by Manuel Orbegozo ...
IEEE

Multimodal Learning-Based Relational Graph Neural Networks for Social Bot Detection

Abstract: Social bots are virtual accounts controlled by automated programs that can disseminate harmful content on social media and even manipulate public opinion. Social bot detection aims to ...
IEEE

SNN-FT: Temporal-Coded Spiking Neural Networks for Fourier Transform

Abstract: The Fourier transform (FT) stands as a fundamental tool in modern signal processing with widespread applications across various scientific and engineering fields. Therefore, there remains a ...
Wall Street Journal

Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot

Officials at multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s xAI artificial-intelligence tools in recent months, highlighting continuing disagreements ...
GitHub

aws-samples/sample-prechat-ai

PreChat replaces traditional form-based data collection with an AI chatbot interface. Through natural conversations, it collects business requirements from customers and automatically generates BANT ...
Futurism

Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting ...
Bleeping Computer

APT37 hackers use new malware to breach air-gapped networks

North Korean hackers are deploying newly uncovered tools to move data between internet-connected and air-gapped systems, spread via removable drives, and conduct covert surveillance. The malicious ...
Wired

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...
The Hill

Parents are underestimating their teens’ use of AI chatbots: Survey

There’s a wide gap between parents’ estimates of their teenagers’ AI chatbot activities and actual usage, according to new polling data. A majority of teens in the U.S. — 64 percent — indicated they ...
The New York Times

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.” A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think ...
Pew Research Center

What parents say about their teen’s AI use

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial intelligence – from how teens use chatbots to how they think about AI ...