The Verge

WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free

The European Commission resorted to emergency powers to force Meta’s hand. The European Commission resorted to emergency powers to force Meta’s hand. is a news writer focused on creative industries, ...
Wall Street Journal

His Chatbot Nearly Ruined Him. To Recover, He Had to Destroy It.

Joe Alary’s chatbot addiction nearly cost him his job, his savings and some of his long-term relationships. The 57-year-old is now rebuilding his life. Alary, who is divorced and lives alone, had ...
Wired

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations. The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for ...
Reuters

Meta seeks to avoid EU fine with free WhatsApp access for rival AI chatbots

BRUSSELS, May 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab has offered to give rival AI chatbots free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp for a month while ‌it discusses ways to ...
The Washington Post

See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article.

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Anthropic Is Making Its Claude Chatbot More Appealing to Consumers

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC, which originally aimed its Claude chatbot at businesses, is looking to capitalize on recent inroads with consumers by making the software more appealing ...
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 ...
STAT

Voice-first chatbots will exacerbate AI’s mental health threat

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...
CNBC

'I hate customer-service chatbots': The consumer-AI refund relationship is off to a rocky start

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo Many consumers say early experiences with customer support chatbots feel more like deflection ...
The New York Times

Your Chatbot Isn’t a Therapist

Dr. Saini is a psychiatrist and Dr. Bailen is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the use of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini has surged, we’ve heard about ...
Wired

Mexico City Built a Chatbot to Help World Cup Tourists Navigate the City

The launch of “Xoli” adds to the technological efforts promoted by the federal government to turn the 2026 World Cup into an engine of development for the entire country. The platform was designed to ...
CNET

AI Chatbots Are Making People All Think the Same, Study Says

Part of what makes us human is the unique way we think and solve problems. But using large language models like ChatGPT might be eroding this uniqueness and leading humans to think and communicate the ...