Futurism

Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It

Internet sleuths found a "Tamagotchi" feature buried in leaked source code of Anthropic's Claude Code chatbot.

This privacy-first chatbot is taking off - here's why and how to try it

Users are flocking to Duck.ai. Is it a reaction to increasing concerns about AI companies and privacy? Here's what you should ...
UC San Diego Today

A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The ...
PBS

5 things you should consider before asking an AI chatbot for health advice

WASHINGTON (AP) — With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health ...
Futurism

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

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A new study found that ...
AOL

Chat, Code, Claw: What Happens When AI Agents Work in Teams

Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had chatbots, designed to converse. Then, those chatbots became proficient at using tools, allowing them to do things like search ...
The Atlantic

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...
CNBC

AI chatbot firms face stricter regulation in online safety laws protecting children in the UK

AI companies providing chatbots are facing stricter laws to protect children online in the UK, the country's prime minister has announced. Keir Starmer said "no platform gets a free pass." The ...
Gizmodo

I Went on a Dinner Date With an AI Chatbot. Here’s How It Went.

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...
NPR

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her

Micky Small is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She started using ChatGPT to outline and workshop screenplays while getting her master's degree. But something ...
Reuters

China’s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI model for 'agent era'

China's ByteDance releases new AI model Doubao 2.0 ByteDance's release anticipates DeepSeek's unveiling of new product Doubao most-used AI chatbot app in China but facing pressure from Alibaba's Qwen ...
Ars Technica

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has ...