Amazon launches Alexa+ on the web to take on ChatGPT and Gemini

Alexa+ is now available on the web for some users, giving users a ChatGPT-style interface to chat, upload files, manage lists ...
PCMag

ChatGPT Remembers Everything. 8 Privacy Tricks I Use to Prevent It From Learning Too Much About Me

It's never a good idea to spill your most intimate secrets to an AI chatbot, but there are ways to limit the data ChatGPT ...
The New York Times

Jesus Bot Is Always on Demand (for a Small Monthly Fee)

I spent the last week talking to three different religious chatbots about my struggles and questions — Bible Chat, Christian AI and Text With Jesus. There has been ample news coverage of the concerns ...
TechCrunch

Character.AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat

Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...
TechSpot

Roblox will now restrict chat by age group, verified with selfie-based scans

In context: Roblox is a gaming platform with a massive audience of teens and younger players. Authorities worldwide have criticized the service as a potential grooming ground for predators, but the ...
Network World

How a bot management file push crippled Cloudflare’s global network

A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks. A massive outage at content delivery ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...
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Expert warns against using AI chat bots as therapy: 'They don't understand'

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center director of digital psychiatry John Torous joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss his concerns over the rising number of people turning to artificial intelligence ...
Digital Trends

ChatGPT might have just become the best AI chatbot out there.

GPT-5.1 sets the chatbot apart from the alternatives on the market. OpenAI / OpenAI GPT-5.1 is the latest update from OpenAI, set to upgrade ChatGPT in a pretty groundbreaking way. While ChatGPT has ...
PC World

A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT: Make AI work for you

Hardly anyone can have missed the AI phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Almost every major company has some kind of AI initiative now. Politicians talk about how important it is not to ...
Benzinga.com

Jim Cramer Left Unimpressed With His ChatGPT Encounter: 'Hard To Believe Any Serious Entity Really Trusts These Chat Bots'

On Sunday, CNBC host Cramer took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his frustration with AI chatbots. He said he asked ChatGPT for data on single-family home prices over the last six years, but each ...
MediaPost

Forget About The Bots, Here's How Humans Decide

It's been quite a while since I've seen a good communications planning research study so I was struck for a couple or reasons when the team at WPP Media passed along their just-released one conducted ...