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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence chatbots and protect children and teens from the potential dangers of the technology. The law requires platforms to remind users they are interacting with a chatbot and not a human. The notification would pop up every three hours for users who are minors. Companies …

​​AI Chatbots Move Closer to Advertising. ChatGPT Might Never Be the Same.  Barron’s Improving Your Recommendations on Our Apps With AI at Meta  Meta Store Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats  CNBC Meta will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbot to sell you stuff  CNN Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI …

A.I. Chatbots Are Built to Please. Here’s How You Can Use Them Safely.  The New York Times Source link

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before they’ll take your money. This dance of refusal and counter-refusal, called taarof, governs countless daily interactions in Persian culture. And AI models are terrible at it. New research released …

ChatGPT is the original chatbot. It was the first to do it, and it remains arguably the best-known out there. However, the landscape has changed dramatically. Where there was once just ChatGPT and a small handful of brands beginning to enter the market, the world of chatbots is now full to the brim. Big names like Google Gemini, and xAI …

In early September, at the start of the college football season, ChatGPT and Gemini suggested I consider betting on Ole Miss to cover a 10.5-point spread against Kentucky. That was bad advice. Not just because Ole Miss only won by 7, but because I’d literally just asked the chatbots for help with problem gambling. Sports fans these days can’t escape the …

Two lawsuits filed in Denver District Court this week allege that artificial-intelligence-powered chatbots sexually abused two Colorado teenagers, leading one girl to kill herself. Juliana Peralta, a 13-year-old from Thornton, died by suicide in 2023 after using a Character.AI chatbot. Another unnamed 13-year-old from Weld County also was repeatedly abused by the technology, the lawsuits allege. The chatbots isolated the …

The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be pretty complicated. So I’m very excited to talk with today’s guest, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill, who has …

We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam. Major AI chatbots were happy to help.  Reuters AI Chatbots Are Fueling A New Wave Of Digital Scams  Finimize SpamGPT Cybercrime Toolkit Enables Large-scale Automated Phishing Campaigns In 2025  Dataconomy AI Service for Cyberattacks Emerges on the Dark Web  ForkLog We set out to craft a phishing scam. AI chatbots were happy to help  MarketScreener Source …

In recent years, ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, with nearly 200 million users pumping a total of over a billion prompts into the app every day. These prompts may seem to complete requests out of thin air. But behind the scenes, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are using a massive amount of energy. In 2023, data centers, which are used to …