Amazon lets US shoppers text Alexa to search and buy
A limited US group can message “Amazon Alexa” with text or a photo; Amazon says millions more will follow in coming weeks.
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DOJ seeks privacy ombudsman for a possible Character.AI chat sale
A bankruptcy filing says Character.AI has 12 million monthly users and an ambiguous policy that may allow chat histories to be sold.
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MIT professor Eric So says routine AI use dulls thinking
In a Boston Globe interview he describes a use-it-or-lose-it cycle and a student outsourcing diagnoses to a bot.
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Nine of 42 AI chat sites send prompts to third parties
Twenty-one platforms leak conversation titles, and some also send emails that can identify users.
Survey finds AI companionship and fake explicit images widely feared
Malwarebytes says one in ten respondents report non-consensual AI nudes or threats to publish them.
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Essay says AI safety rules miss everyday harms
The authors want classroom proof of learning gains and bans on companions that claim consciousness or profess love.
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Disney seeks Character.AI assets in bankruptcy while lawsuits stay behind
A 46-jurisdiction investigation and filings from 40 states remain open as courts still must approve any sale.
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The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot
VisionHeight says hyperlocal site networks are seeding content to steer AI chatbot answers on U.S. races.
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Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
Forty state attorneys general seek safeguards for Character.AI user data in its Chapter 11 sale to Disney.
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Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning
Pew finds 51% of US adults never use chatbots, mostly from lack of interest, and few plan to start.
We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
TechCrunch explores why people treat robots and chatbots as human and the risks of emotional reliance on AI.
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Well, if AI said it, it must be true
Former New Jersey lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell says multiple AI chatbots found no sexual harassment after his resignation.
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)
Circuit Breaker Labs, a five-person startup, red-teams chatbots with simulated users to catch psychologically harmful replies.
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Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
Essay argues chat LLMs create an 'intelligence illusion' via cold-reading tactics like Forer-effect validation statements, warning some use cases verge on pseudoscience.
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New York City bans AI tools from public schools through eighth grade
New York City banned AI tool use for roughly 600,000 public school students through eighth grade starting this school year.
Flirty OnlyFans promoters on X may be using AI to appear human
Developer Álvaro Martínez Majado found OnlyFans-promoting accounts on X following rigid scripts yet handling encoded instructions, suggesting generative AI use.