Do AI chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? That’s how the companies selling these AI-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The ...

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Do AI chatbots packaged inside plush animals really help children, or do they threaten vital developmental milestones? Companies market them as "screen-free playmates" for toddlers, but pediatric ...

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The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret ...

We've had AI image generators for years now, but they've gotten significantly better in recent months. ChatGPT, Gemini, Firefly, Midjourney, and other services now offer high-quality images that are ...

Leah Langley-McClean, a wedding dress designer in Nashville, recently had a customer come in with a unique ask: She presented a photo of a floor-length white gown with an asymmetrical neckline, no ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

AI could one day be out of control. At least, that seems to be the general idea behind many doomsayers about artificial intelligence. While some are worried about the dangers AI poses to humanity, ...

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