Most of those affected were so-called “AI tutors,” staff who refine the large language models that power xAI’s flagship ...

We asked people if they were concerned about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. What they told us revealed a deep unease about what the technology means for our future.

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce bipartisan GUARD Act to protect minors from AI chatbots through mandatory ...

Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger’s seat. Fueled by Google’s Gemini AI technology, the world’s most popular navigation app will become a ...

Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger's seat. Fueled by Google's ...

What Zuckerberg described—what is now unfolding—is the beginning of a new digital era, more actively anti-social than the ...

New research finds that AI companions can provide emotional support, intimacy, and personal growth, but they can also erode ...

Our cars are turning into digital friends that talk, listen, and learn, sparking debate over how much AI belongs on the road ...

Initially, AI companions appear to help. The use of these AI companions can lead to increased affective expressiveness—users open up, share emotions more freely, and articulate feelings they might ...

Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning.

But the biggest issue with the always-there companion is that its very material form — worsened by particular aesthetic ...