AI shortcuts can turn into detours and dead ends

Downpay deactivated the chatbot within a month. AI now plays a far narrower role in the company’s customer support: drafting ...
Engadget

Yelp's AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation

Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add more artificial intelligence tools. The review site has upgraded its Yelp Assistant, an agentic AI chatbot, to ...
The Washington Post

Don’t tell your AI chatbot these 5 things to keep your money safe

Artificial intelligence tools have made financial advice more accessible, but they have also created a significant privacy risk. Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for help with their ...
CNN

5 ways your doctor may be using AI chatbots — and why it matters

Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health answers. Doctors are, too. But the ways doctors are incorporating AI chatbots into their practice are surprising. Specialized medical AI ...
PC World

Bing is the anti-AI search engine you should be using

PCWorld argues that Bing serves as a superior alternative to AI-heavy search engines by prioritizing human-authored content over automated summaries. AI search engines like Google’s AI Mode often hide ...
CNN

OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after failing to flag mass shooter’s conversations with its AI chatbot

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s ...
CBS News

Anthropic investigating possible breach of its Mythos AI model

Anthropic is investigating a possible breach of Mythos, a new model the artificial intelligence company rolled out to a small pool of companies earlier this month to help them detect software ...
CNBC

We tried out xAI's Grok chatbot while driving a Tesla in NYC. Here's what happened.

Tesla owner Mike Nelson has been using the AI chatbot Grok in his vehicle for several months now. He finds it is useful, nearly irresistible, and dangerous. Nelson, a lawyer with a background in auto ...
Wired

5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice

As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. “Millions of people turn to ChatGPT with money-related questions, from ...
Business Insider

One Disney employee calls Claude 51,000 times a day. Internal docs reveal how the Mouse House is using AI.

Disney employees are embracing AI, per screenshots of the company's "AI Adoption Dashboard." Some prolific AI users at Disney are using tens of millions of tokens a month. AI analysts say these tech ...
Microsoft

AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...
CNBC

There's an 'art' to writing AI prompts for personal finance, MIT professor says

Many people are turning to artificial intelligence for personal finance advice. Writing a good AI prompt can mean the difference between receiving a reasonable or poor output, experts said. While AI ...