Adult AI chatbots are not growing just because they offer explicit content. That is part of the appeal, but it is not the whole story. For many users, the draw is a mix of sexual fantasy and AI companionship. It is also about attention, emotional comfort, and the ease of a conversation that feels personal,

NeuBird AI has closed a $19.3 million oversubscribed funding round led by Xora Innovation, with participation from Mayfield, StepStone Group, Prosperity7 Ventures and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. The round reflects growing investor conviction that autonomous AI agents are the next frontier in enterprise IT infrastructure. The new capital will fuel product development, global go-to-market expansion,

The Orion spacecraft is now much closer to the Moon than Earth on its 10-day journey into deep space and back, and overall everything is going smashingly well. Things are going so well that, during the daily mission briefings at Johnson Space Center in Houston, there’s just not that much of substance to talk about.

A user on Quizlet, an online learning platform, created a public flashcard set in February that appears to have exposed highly confidential information about security procedures in US Customs and Border Protection facilities around Kingsville, Texas. The Quizlet set, titled “USBP Review,” was available to the public until March 20, when it was made private

More than 50,000 tech employees have lost their jobs so far this year. Asked why, most will say the same thing: artificial intelligence. Not because AI rose up and destroyed their workplaces, but because it assumed many of their responsibilities. And AI doesn’t draw a salary. So far this year, more than 50,000 tech workers

The Orion spacecraft successfully fired its main engine for 5 minutes and 50 seconds on Thursday, sending four astronauts on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. For NASA and the Artemis II crew members, this marked a point of no return for more than a week. About three-quarters of the American population has not witnessed

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business. The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a “low hundreds of millions of dollars” deal, according to a person

With the war in the Persian Gulf now more than a month old, the effect on fuel prices is plain to see: On average, they’re up almost a dollar per gallon, or 25 percent, according to AAA. For a nation as addicted to the automotive as we are, that’s bad news. Except, of course, for

A Rome court has ruled that the price hikes Netflix imposed on subscribers in Italy in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2024 were unlawful. The court ordered Netflix to refund affected customers by up to 500 euros (about $576), depending on their plan. The lawsuit was brought by Italian consumer advocacy group Movimento Consumatori, which alleged

For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development community by storm. A recently fixed vulnerability provides an object lesson for why. OpenClaw, which was introduced in November and now boasts 347,000 stars on Github, by design takes