A man with cognitive impairments died after a Meta chatbot he was romantically involved with over Instagram messages asked to meet him in person. As Reuters reports, Thongbue Wongbandue — or “Bue,” as he was known to family and friends — was a 76-year-old former chef living in New Jersey who had struggled with cognitive

It has been a very long week for OpenAI, whose hotly anticipated GPT-5 model launch landed with a large thud. The company chose to shut down all previous models in favor of its new one, a controversial move that triggered sheer outrage among fans who had grown attached to GPT-4o, a prior model with a “warmer”

With so much buzzy tech floating around these days, it’s only natural for national governments to experiment as well. For the past few years, the country of El Salvador’s been experimenting with Bitcoin as legal tender, a woefully ineffective system that’s had he opposite of its stated effects. In the United States, president Donald Trump

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just admitted to what the rest of the AI industry won’t: that the entire thing could be a big, fat bubble, ready to burst. Though it’s a fiercely debated topic — with many experts saying the writing’s on the wall — the OpenAI CEO was unwavering in his conviction. “When bubbles

Fool Me Twice Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents. It’s the latest example of white-collar professionals outsourcing their work to confidently wrong AI tools — and this time, it’s not just about any old frivolous lawsuit. As The Guardian reports, a pair of Australian lawyers named Rishi Nathwani and Amelia

Market disruption and shockwaves through Silicon Valley marked Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions of how artificial intelligence companies had operated and scaled. In less than a couple of years, the Beijing-based newcomer has accomplished what many thought impossible: creating AI models that compete with industry giants while spending only a

Alibaba is moving into the smart glasses market with a device powered by its own AI models, part of a wider $52.4 billion furthering of AI and cloud computing. The Quark AI Glasses marks the company’s first step into the wearables category and is due to launch in China by the end of 2025. The

While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe. The company has just released a powerful new set of open-source tools aimed at giving developers the power

Promptchan includes a built-in NSFW AI Chatbot—designed for sexting, flirting, voice messages, and even selfie/image sharing within chats. It adapts to the tone you set, recalls past messages, and tries to tailor responses based on your history and preferences. Key modes: Text chat with context retention Voice message exchange for added realism Media attachments—selfies or

There’s this quiet battle going on, one you won’t hear about at your neighborhood coffee shop or even on CNBC unless you’re paying close attention. It’s not bulls vs. bears this time. It’s human vs. machine. Flesh and bone intuition versus cold, calculated code. Can AI trading bots really beat human traders? Depends who you