Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. The families of three teens have filed lawsuits alleging that chatbots hosted by the company Character.AI

A husband and wife, together nearly 15 years, had reached a breaking point. And in the middle of their latest fight, they received a heartbreaking text. “Our son heard us arguing,” the husband told Futurism. “He’s 10, and he sent us a message from his phone saying, ‘please don’t get a divorce.'” What his wife

A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives. A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will “worsen people’s ability to think creatively.” Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a slew of new augmented reality glasses, including what he claimed to be the “first AI glasses with high resolution,” a new $799 version of its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that features a tiny screen that’s viewable to the wearer. But it didn’t take long for the company’s

OpenAI is finally putting in parental controls on ChatGPT after parents of teenagers who killed themselves after using AI chatbots testified in front of Congress this week. In a company blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that parents will be able to link their personal account with their kids’ account, disable features as needed, get

How would you react if your mother admitted to you she was dating Aubrey “Drake” Graham, the rap superstar from Toronto? And that this new boyfriend wasn’t the real flesh-and-blood Drake — oh no — but is instead the AI chatbot version of Champagne Papi. This is an actual situation that was relayed by the

Chinese technology giant Huawei announced its plans for the next generations of its Ascend chip line at the Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai this week. In his keynote to the conference, deputy chair of the Huawei board, Eric Xu, said that 2025 had been a “memorable year,” and noted the debut of DeepSeek-R1 in

Google is defending its AI Overviews right as a major publisher sues, and the company’s on-the-record stance is eyebrow-raising: users increasingly prefer quick, contextual summaries over the old “10 blue links.” That line—delivered by Google policy executive Markham Erickson—landed the same day fresh legal heat arrived from Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone and

A new World Trade Organization study says artificial intelligence is on track to reshape how goods and services move, potentially swelling global trade by roughly 34–37% and boosting GDP by 12–13% by 2040. The headline numbers arrived today alongside a sober warning: without inclusive policies, AI may widen the gap between rich and poor economies.

Phrasly’s AI Humanizer is a tool meant to take text generated by AI (e.g. ChatGPT, other automatic writers) and rework it so it sounds more like a person wrote it — more natural flow, less robotic structure, fewer phrasings that scream “I’m AI.” Some of its key stated features: You paste your text (or import