AI companions may ease loneliness, but a six-needs framework shows when synthetic comfort supports human connection—and when ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

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Discover what agentic AI is and how AI agents work. Uncover the types of agentic AI systems, their enterprise use cases, ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries by automating processes, improving decision-making, and enhancing ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore how Americans use and view artificial intelligence (AI). The study also dives into who uses chatbots and has smart home devices with AI ...

Clockwise, from top right: An employee at an Amazon Web Services lab in Austin, Texas; a woman uses a smartwatch; a student before commencement at the University of Southern California; a person uses ...

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...

Figure AI’s Helix 02 humanoid robots neared 40 hours of autonomous work and almost 50,000 packages in a livestreamed warehouse demo. Figure’s humanoid robots were supposed to sort packages for eight ...