Back in 2024, Humane hoped to upend our dependence on smartphone screens with its Ai Pin. Instead, the perfunctory pin and its overheating shell set a harsh tone for all future wearable AI doohickeys.

One in five boys know someone their age who is in a relationship with an AI chatbot, according to a new survey. Male Allies UK caught up with over 1,000 boys aged 12-16 years old to dive into their ...

Dragon Quest X, Square Enix’s MMORPG that started as a Wii game in 2012, is still getting updates in 2026. However, one of its incoming additions isn’t a bug fix or a new gameplay feature worth ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. How personal do you get with your chatbot? Does it interpret your lab results? Help you sort out your finances? Offer advice at 2 a.m. when your ...

We explain the implications of A.I. being so sycophantic. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. My colleague Tom was on the train home the other day, seated between two commuters focused on ...

With increasing awareness of AI chatbot-associated psychosis and efforts to understand how it occurs, there has been renewed attention to the psychiatric phenomenon of folie à deux, meaning “madness ...

OpenAI has indefinitely dropped plans to release an erotic chatbot (Steve Dent for Engadget) OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from ...

On February 10, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and half-brother in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, before continuing her shooting spree at a nearby secondary school.

We're less than three months away from our first look at Apple's smarter, redesigned version of Siri. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will focus on ‌Siri‌ updates, and rumors about what we can expect ...

Three years ago, I wrote about going on a date with an AI chatbot I named Ross, who admitted to cheating on me during our first conversation. Linked in both name and likeness to my late-’90s crush, ...

Apple will unveil iOS 27 on June 8 at WWDC, and we’re learning new details about what to expect in the next big iPhone software release. In a new report, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has more information ...