People who interact with AI more than colleagues may end up eroding the social skills needed to climb the corporate ladder, a psychologist warns.

Skip over Google for those random questions that pop into your head all day long and see if AI can answer them instead. Here are some tips to get the best results.

A viral TikTok saga about a woman and her psychiatrist is one of several recent incidents to spark online discourse about people relying on chatbots to inform their truth.

While most people can use chatbots without issue, experts say a small group of users may be especially vulnerable to delusional thinking after extended use. Some media reports of AI psychosis note that individuals had no prior mental health diagnoses, but clinicians caution that undetected or latent risk factors may still have been present.

Several AI companions have recently hit the market, including ElliQ, which normally costs $59 a month to use. Smola received the chatbot for free with funding from a federal grant.

AI models from OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Alibaba can make people change their political views after less than 10 minutes of conversation, according to new research, the latest in a growing body of work that shows how large language models (LLMs) have become powerful tools of influence.

Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price

New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

This full-steam-ahead push into AI companionship by an established social media company is in its early stages, and Meta is still in the process of figuring out how to build, tune, and deploy its AI companions. This week, Reuters got hold of some of the materials Meta is purportedly using to do so:

If you've interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot, you've likely realized that all AI models are biased. They were trained on enormous corpuses of unruly data and refined through human instructions and testing.

But with GPT-5, now it’s like talking to an expert: a legitimate Ph.D-level expert in anything, any area you need, on demand that can help you with whatever your goals are.” While OpenAI insists GPT-5 is the company’s best AI yet,