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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Popular AI chatbots are confidently dispensing medical misinformation, analysis shows

A substantial amount of medical information provided by five popular chatbots is inaccurate and incomplete, with half (50%) of the responses problematic: 30% were somewhat, and 20% were highly ...
TechRepublic

Utah Lets an AI Chatbot Renew Some Psychiatric Prescriptions in New Pilot

Utah’s latest AI health pilot does not let a bot diagnose or start treatment. It does let one renew a narrow set of psychiatric meds under a tightly staged review process. Utah has signed a new ...
Tech Digest

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot refuses to work this week

Anthropic’s Claude, one of the world’s most popular AI assistants, has been plagued by a series of high-profile availability issues this week. The problems reached a critical point on Wednesday, April ...
Wall Street Journal

A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press A federal judge in Manhattan ruled in ...
TechSpot

Developer rebuilds Doom using CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

In a nutshell: Modern CSS has been pushed into some unusual places over the past few years, but few experiments stretch it as far as a fully playable version of Doom rendered entirely with HTML ...
TweakTown

Gemini AI chatbot to help stumped Dragon Quest X players, Square Enix confirms Gemini-powered Chatty Slimey coming to MMORPG

TL;DR: Square Enix is partnering with Google's AI to introduce a conversational AI slime companion in Dragon Quest X, providing real-time tips and voiced dialogue. Japanese games-maker Square Enix has ...