We explain the implications of A.I. being so sycophantic. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. My colleague Tom was on the train home the other day, seated between two commuters focused on ...

Did our AI summary help? After delaying the rollout of its erotic chatbot feature, OpenAI has paused plans to introduce it, according to a report by the Financial Times. The move comes as the company ...

OpenAI has indefinitely dropped plans to release an erotic chatbot (Steve Dent for Engadget) OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from ...

Apple is reportedly giving Siri a Large Language Model (LLM) upgrade in a year or two. The boost is expected to make the iPhone’s virtual assistant more conversational and equip it with a broader ...

LONDON — As AI becomes increasingly more entrenched into our everyday lives, a new survey in the UK has found that nearly a third of children using AI chatbots said that they would describe the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — So, here’s the thing: Zach Braff is, in fact, not dating an AI chatbot. Rumors swirled across the internet so thickly that the “Scrubs” star, 50, decided he needed to address the ...

Grok Imagine’s “nudify” scandal reveals something about the dream of manhandling photos. By Mitch Therieau Sometime in the remote 2000s, the faceless users of a website called Encyclopedia Dramatica ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by OpenAI in February 2026 demonstrates a health chatbot on a phone app. (OpenAI via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — ...

Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answers that didn't stand up to scrutiny. So he was ...

They say nature abhors a vacuum and I can tell you ad market columnists certainly do. So when the insights and analytics team at ad spending tracker Guideline passed along its just-published baseline ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by The ...

The Italian Competition Authority on Wednesday issued a press release ordering Meta to suspend the terms excluding competing AI chatbots from being created and used with WhatsApp’s Business offering.