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Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

“AI is expensive. Let's be honest about that,” Anand says.Growth vs. SafetyIn October 2024, the mother of a teen who died by suicide...

OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s...

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty...

The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman's other company. It...

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and it cost me...

What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out.The alien in...

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced...

This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models

“‘Every AI for everyone’ is kind of our tagline,” says Gupta. “We have organized all the AI models we can find today.” Yupp’s...

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

“What counties do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need...

Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage

“Something like over 70 percent of pull requests are now Claude code written,” Krieger told me. As for what those engineers are...

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots

Through the Bing APIs, Microsoft helped other search engines save on the cost and time of crawling billions of web pages and developing...

An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a...