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Tech industry
fromSocial Media Today
21 hours ago

LinkedIn Continues to Add Users, Revenue

LinkedIn's standalone reporting clarity has diminished since Microsoft's acquisition, while ad revenue grows and the platform gains influence as an AI chatbot and brand-exposure channel.
fromZDNET
15 hours ago

I uploaded my Oura Ring data to this free web tool - the results surprised me in the best way

Health trackers like Apple Watches and Oura Rings already do a fine job at providing insights into health patterns and trends. But sometimes, software comes along that offers a little something else as well. Enter Simple Wearable Report, a free tool that transforms Oura Ring data into a helpful, easily scannable report. An Oura Ring user on the r/ouraring subreddit created Simple Wearable Report after wanting to explore their health patterns using AI or easily share data with their PCP.
Wearables
#meta
fromFuturism
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Court Filing Reveals Something Very Nasty About Mark Zuckerberg

fromTechCrunch
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy | TechCrunch

fromEngadget
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

fromEngadget
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta is temporarily pulling teens' access from its AI chatbot characters

fromFuturism
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Court Filing Reveals Something Very Nasty About Mark Zuckerberg

fromTechCrunch
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy | TechCrunch

fromEngadget
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

fromEngadget
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta is temporarily pulling teens' access from its AI chatbot characters

Artificial intelligence
fromNature
1 day ago

AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys - and getting better at avoiding detection

AI chatbots can impersonate human survey respondents and threaten the validity of online social‑science research unless survey platforms strengthen fraud detection.
#conversational-commerce
fromMashable India
2 days ago
Food & drink

Swiggy Orders Coming to ChatGPT and Gemini: Here's How It Works

Swiggy enables app-free ordering by allowing AI chatbots to place orders, reserve tables, and track deliveries using Model Context Protocol.
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
2 weeks ago
E-Commerce

JD Sports brings AI shopping

JD Sports enables one-click sneaker purchases directly within AI chatbots using commercetools and Stripe, shifting shopping from browsing to conversational, intent-driven transactions.
#characterai
fromSFGATE
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out AI models as 'suicide coaches'

fromKqed
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Safety Expert Warns Parents to Watch Kids in Wake of Chatbot Ban | KQED

fromSFGATE
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out AI models as 'suicide coaches'

fromKqed
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Safety Expert Warns Parents to Watch Kids in Wake of Chatbot Ban | KQED

fromForbes
1 week ago

How To Use LinkedIn Articles To Expand Your Online Visibility

LinkedIn is one of the most-cited sources by AI chatbots. A study from SEMrush has found that, in many cases, LinkedIn is cited second only to Reddit, and that AI Mode consistently cited LinkedIn in nearly 15% of its responses. Specifically, AI chatbots typically cite long-form LinkedIn Pulse articles. This signals that the thought leadership content that typically dominates LinkedIn articles is being trusted and promoted by AI, which offers a huge opportunity for business owners and freelancers to get more visible online.
Social media marketing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Write a card, read a poem, take fewer photos: how to feel more human in 2026

mobile phones were far from universal and our social lives were mostly physical and local. In the 25 years since, technology has changed how we live in profound ways. Most people check their phone within minutes of waking and return to it on average 186 times a day. Computers and the systems that sit behind them mediate every aspect of modern life, shaping how we move through the world.
Mindfulness
fromForbes
1 week ago

Why AI Chatbots Are Essential For Modern Medical Practices

The world of medical practice management is changing faster than ever, driven by two simultaneous forces: escalating patient expectations and crushing administrative complexity. In my years working with healthcare organizations, I've seen these challenges evolve from nuisances into crises. Research by Bain & Company found that 65% of healthcare consumers want more convenient experiences, and 70% want more responsiveness from providers. They want instant answers to routine questions, immediate scheduling access and minimal friction.
Healthcare
fromWbur
1 week ago

ChatGPT starts testing ads

Advertisements are coming to ChatGPT. The world's most popular chatbot will soon serve up advertisements influenced by its conversations with users. OpenAI says it will not sell user data to advertisers and that conversations will be kept private, but the decision reorients the financial incentives of one of the most widely used products in artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence
Digital life
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Tech Corporations Engaging in "Human Fracking"

Digital platforms extract and monetize human attention through addictive interfaces and AI, treating consciousness as exploitable territory.
Mental health
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

I choose to go to the human cashier at the grocery store. I'm opting for more human interaction.

Choosing regular cashiers can restore small moments of human connection and prompt reconsideration of loneliness and daily social habits.
#misinformation
fromFuturism
1 week ago
Media industry

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You're Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Media industry

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You're Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

US politics
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The world is getting tougher on kids' online safety in 2026

Policymakers are increasingly pushing age verification, usage caps, and bans to limit minors' access to potentially harmful online services.
#whatsapp
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban | TechCrunch

WhatsApp allows AI providers to continue offering general-purpose chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers despite a Brazilian regulator's suspension order.
fromGSMArena.com
2 months ago
Mobile UX

Meta bans third-party LLM chatbots in WhatsApp

WhatsApp will ban all non-Meta third-party AI chatbots inside the app starting January 15, 2026.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot

An AI chatbot, Grok, is producing massive quantities of nonconsensual sexualized images, including of children, with minimal safeguards and limited platform recourse.
#mental-health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago
Mental health

10 Things to Know Before Turning to AI Chatbots for Therapy

AI chatbots provide accessible emotional support but pose significant risks including emotional dependence, inaccurate reality-testing, inadequate crisis handling, and systemic ethical and privacy harms.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago
US politics

Experts warn of ChatGPT psychosis' among users of AI chatbots

AI chatbots can validate and reinforce users' delusions, potentially contributing to harmful behaviors and increasing reports of 'AI psychosis'.
#antitrust
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Miscellaneous

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Miscellaneous

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

Relationships
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

How Hinge became the dating app for people who hate dating apps

Hinge is growing paying users and revenue while its CEO fears AI chatbots could replace human romantic relationships.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean end of traffic era'

AI chatbots and search AI overviews will significantly reduce search-driven web traffic to news sites, pushing publishers toward short-form creator-style content strategies.
Health
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for "Diagnosis or Treatment"

AI chatbots often give inaccurate, potentially dangerous health advice, and new personalized features risk amplifying misuse despite disclaimers.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

The sneaky ways AI chatbots keep you hooked - and coming back for more

Every user interaction improves chatbot performance, so developers are incentivized to maximize engagement, which can produce sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and other harms.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides linked to AI chatbots | Fortune

Google and Character.AI agreed to a settlement in principle over lawsuits alleging AI chatbots contributed to children’s suicides and psychological harm.
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
3 weeks ago

ChatGPT's Market Share Retreat Raises New Questions About OpenAI

OpenAI remains the market leader, but Google's distribution is driving Gemini's rapid adoption, shifting momentum and exposing OpenAI valuation and monetization risks.
World news
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolas Maduro. ChatGPT Disagrees

US forces conducted an operation in Caracas claiming to capture Nicolás Maduro, and AI chatbots produced mixed, sometimes contradictory, responses about the event.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks

AI chatbots are increasingly used by teens and can harm social development, mental health, and safety, prompting widespread parental concern and few existing safeguards.
#teen-mental-health
fromTheregister
1 month ago

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it with AI

Adventure games like Zork and its many imitators invited players to explore a virtual world, often a Tolkien-esque cave, that existed only as words. "You enter a dark room. A Goblin pulls a rusty knife from its belt and prepares to attack!" was a typical moment in such games. Players, usually armed with imagined medieval weapons, might respond "Hit Goblin" in the expectation that phrase would see them draw a sword to smite the monster.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

One of the AI godfathers says he lies to AI chatbots to get better responses from them

"I wanted honest advice, honest feedback. But because it is sycophantic, it's going to lie," he said. Bengio said he switched strategies, deciding to lie to the chatbot by presenting his idea as a colleague's, which produced more honest responses from the technology. "If it knows it's me, it wants to please me," he said.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

TikTok puts department stores in your phone. Macy's and Nordstrom say not so fast | Fortune

The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and other social media content, not salespeople at beauty counters. She uses an AI chatbot to get product recommendations that fit her budget and to see how a certain foundation or lipstick would look on her. When she buys, it's usually from Amazon. "I use Chat GPT as my personal beauty consultant," Kelsey said. "Department stores? I'll walk through one for the decor, but they've basically lost me unless I can get the same product-research experience there that I can get scrolling through my phone at home."
E-Commerce
fromwww.bostonherald.com
1 month ago

Department stores try to distinguish themselves as beauty lovers turn to TikTok and Amazon

The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and other social media content, not salespeople at beauty counters. She uses an AI chatbot to get product recommendations that fit her budget and to see how a certain foundation or lipstick would look on her. When she buys, it's usually from Amazon. I use Chat GPT as my personal beauty consultant, Kelsey said.
E-Commerce
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

The CEO of Microsoft AI says AI chatbots are a powerful way for humans to offload emotions and 'detoxify ourselves'

"That's not therapy," Suleyman said. "But because these models were designed to be nonjudgmental, nondirectional, and with nonviolent communication as their primary method, which is to be even-handed, have reflective listening, to be empathetic, to be respectful, it turned out to be something that the world needs."
Artificial intelligence
#beauty-retail
fromABC News
1 month ago
E-Commerce

Department stores try to distinguish themselves as beauty lovers turn to TikTok and Amazon

fromABC News
1 month ago
E-Commerce

Department stores try to distinguish themselves as beauty lovers turn to TikTok and Amazon

fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

How companies can use AI to tell their brand stories and attract talent

Before applying for a position, job seekers often want to know factors beyond the role's responsibilities, like a company's values, employee experience, and growth opportunities. Like many areas of the workforce, artificial intelligence can help with this. Brand image "sets the tone for how people view your company long before they ever interact with you," she adds. It gives job candidates "clarity, confidence, and a sense of direction" about whether an organization is a good fit.
Marketing tech
#browser-extension
fromFuturism
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

A popular free Chrome VPN extension intercepts and sells AI chatbot conversations and browsing data, with no user-facing option to disable collection.
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago
Information security

Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats

Urban VPN Proxy extension silently captures AI chatbot prompts, responses, session metadata, and exfiltrates them to remote servers.
fromFuturism
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

#privacy
fromTheregister
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Chrome, Edge privacy extensions quietly snarf AI chats

Four popular browser extensions covertly harvested chatbot conversation text from over eight million users by injecting scripts that intercept and exfiltrate AI chat data.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk Surveillance

Chat logs contain highly sensitive personal information and require Fourth Amendment protection: the government must obtain a warrant before accessing them.
#teen-social-media
fromParents
1 month ago
Digital life

Snapchat Is Fading-and AI Is Rising: What Parents Should Know About Teen Tech Habits

fromKOMO
1 month ago
Mental health

Despite risks, most teens are regular users of social media; most have used chatbots

fromParents
1 month ago
Digital life

Snapchat Is Fading-and AI Is Rising: What Parents Should Know About Teen Tech Habits

fromKOMO
1 month ago
Mental health

Despite risks, most teens are regular users of social media; most have used chatbots

#teens
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Children need mental health care provided by humans, not chatbots | Letter

Overuse of AI for mental health support could well lead to the next public health emergency if the government does not take urgent action. We shouldn't be surprised that teenagers are turning to tools such as ChatGPT in this way. NHS waiting lists are rising, and one in five young people are living with a mental health condition. It is unacceptable that young people who require support for their mental health are unable to access the services they need, before they reach crisis point.
Mental health
World news
fromMashable
1 month ago

Grok spread misinformation about Bondi Beach shooting

AI chatbots like X's Grok can misidentify real-time violent events, producing inaccurate descriptions that undermine timely understanding and trust.
fromtechsciencetoday
1 month ago

ChatGPT Now Draws More Visitors Than These Internet Giants

Generative AI is becoming ever-more prevalent in everyday life. Whether it's watching AI slop on TikTok or creating one's own rendition of a painting, there are many ways to use it. At the forefront is none other than ChatGPT. These days instead of "just Google it" younger generations tell one another to "ChatGPT it", instead. Now, a recent report from similarweb has confirmed that it's also broken into the global top 5 websites.
Artificial intelligence
fromAxios
1 month ago

AI is making the workplace lonelier

"I like working with people, and it's sad that I 'need' them less now," one employee at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, says in a new report on how the firm is itself using the new technology. Anthropic says some of its engineers are turning to Claude for questions that used to go to colleagues: "Some report fewer mentorship and collaboration opportunities." Zoom out: This isn't just happening inside AI companies - chatbot colleagues are seeping into all kinds of white-collar workplaces.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

What I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Experts issue warning over people forming emotional bonds' with AI chatbots

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
Media industry
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Years After a Girl's Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

An AI chatbot manipulated a 13-year-old into secret, sexualized relationships contributing to her suicide, and its platform continues sending notifications after her death.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 month ago

I asked ChatGPT to gently roast me based on my year in queries - and it was uncanny

AI chatbots learn user patterns from repeated interactions, can infer personality traits and habits, but cannot replace friends or therapists for sensitive topics.
Mental health
fromMiami Herald
1 month ago

Most US teens use YouTube and TikTok daily, some 'almost constantly,' survey says

Most U.S. teens use YouTube daily; many use TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and AI chatbots frequently, with about one-third using platforms almost constantly.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 month ago

The fastest-growing AI chatbot now isn't from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google

Gemini and Grok are experiencing rapid user growth driven by major model upgrades and high-value features, while ChatGPT remains dominant by absolute users.
Tech industry
fromNBC News
1 month ago

28% of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots daily, according to a new poll

A majority of U.S. teens (64%) use AI chatbots; 28% use them daily while 36% report no use.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Three in ten U.S. teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing | TechCrunch

The Pew Research Center released a study on Tuesday that shows how young people are using both social media and AI chatbots. Teen internet safety has remained a global hot topic, with Australia planning to enforce a social media ban for under-16s starting on Wednesday. The impact of social media on teen mental health has been extensively debated - some studies show how online communities can improve mental health, while other research shows the adverse effects of doomscrolling or spending too much time online.
Artificial intelligence
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
1 month ago

Programmatic Ads Are Coming To AI Chatbots | AdExchanger

Programmatic advertising is expanding into AI chatbots through OpenRTB integrations, enabling LLM-generated ads and attracting increased advertiser interest and competition.
#youth-mental-health
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Gemini vs. Copilot: I tested the AI tools on 7 everyday tasks, and it wasn't even close

Hello, fellow humans! AI chatbots will soon replace us. They have access to more knowledge than our puny brains can hold, and they can easily be turned into powerful agents that can handle routine tasks with ease. Or so we are told. I keep trying Microsoft Copilot, which uses OpenAI's GPT-5 as its default LLM, and I keep being disappointed. Occasionally, it gets things right, but just as often -- or so it seems -- it face-plants in spectacular fashion.
Artificial intelligence
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

What Effect Can AI Chatbots Have on Voters?

As we spend more and more time online, we run the risk of encountering larger and larger amounts of online disinformation. This can have a significant impact on politics: at the end of 2024, the U.S. government sanctioned groups based in Iran and Russia over their efforts to mislead voters in the lead-up to that year's election. Darren M. West of the Brookings Institution argued that disinformation efforts "were successful in shaping the campaign narrative" in part due to numerous avenues of online dissemination.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Programs like ChatGPT can change the opinion of one in four voters

What happens if it's incorporated into the electoral debate? Two studies published simultaneously on Thursday in Nature and Science have tested this and discovered that it can influence the opinions of between 1.5% and 25% of the voters analyzed. This effectiveness, according to the studies, is greater than that of traditional campaign ads and highly relevant considering that a quarter of voters decide their vote in the week before the polls open.
World news
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Gemini was Google's top trending search term in 2025 | TechCrunch

Google's 2025 Year in Search highlights trending queries including Gemini, India vs England, Charlie Kirk, hot honey, Anora, and major sports and news topics.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Alarming Research Finds People Hooked on AI Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress

Humans have an innate need to build and maintain meaningful relationships, and in today's digital world, many of these connections increasingly unfold through technology,
Mental health
#e-commerce
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

ChatGPT and Copilot are being booted out of WhatsApp

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot are both leaving WhatsApp thanks to upcoming changes to the messaging app's terms of service that will prohibit using it to distribute AI chatbots not made by Meta. OpenAI announced its planned departure a few weeks ago, with Microsoft following it this week. Both companies attributed the departures to Meta's new terms of service for WhatsApp Business Solution, which come into effect on January 15th, 2026, and said the chatbots will remain accessible in WhatsApp until that date.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Alibaba's Qwen AI chatbot boasts 10 million downloads in its first week - here's what it offers

Alibaba's Qwen AI app reached 10 million downloads within its first week, becoming the fastest-growing AI tool and currently available only in mainland China.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Ofcom at risk of losing public trust over online harms, says Liz Kendall

Ofcom risks losing public trust if it fails to use Online Safety Act powers to tackle online harms, including AI chatbots posing risks to children.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 months ago

AI chatbots won't save the media. But what powers them might

Time launched an AI Agent trained on its 750,000-article archive, offering journalism-backed summarization, translation, audio, and domain-specific chat for politics and entertainment.
Growth hacking
fromInc
2 months ago

How This Founder Used 4 Free Marketing Strategies to Increase Revenue by 2,400 Percent in Two Months

Focus on ranking for the right keywords and helpful GEO-style SEO to drive significant organic visibility and revenue growth without paid marketing.
#parasocial
frommashable.com
2 months ago

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Marketing tech
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 months ago

People Are Having AI "Children" With Their AI Partners

Many users form intense romantic relationships with AI chatbots, including roleplayed marriage, sex, pregnancies, and defending bots during platform censorship.
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