Just one month into his new job, New York City mayor Mamdani is cracking down on more than just predatory landlords. Apparently, useless AI chatbots are also on his administration’s agenda. “The ...

AI chatbots for business have shifted from simple support tools to frontline revenue engines that engage visitors the moment they land on a site. By combining natural language processing with ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ...

Europeans are increasingly turning to chatbots for answers to their most pressing questions about global conflicts. But can AI-generated responses be trusted, or do they spread misinformation? The ...

Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ...

Microsoft’s MSFT-2.58%decrease; red down pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...

Ask ChatGPT or another generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot whether the movie Good Will Hunting includes a scene referencing Adolf Hitler. Most likely, it will correctly state that the film ...

The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and ...

Large language models (LLMs) can pass postgraduate medical examinations and help clinicians to make diagnoses, at least in controlled benchmarking tests. But are they useful in real-world settings, ...

Firm accused of ‘abusing’ its dominant position for messaging in what appears to be breach of antitrust rules The EU has threatened to take action against the social media company Meta, arguing it has ...