Parents who once worried about screen time and social media are now staring down something stranger: chatbots that talk back like friends, therapists, even romantic partners. After a searing ...

Sophisticated chatbots use machine learning, natural language processing, and large-language models to handle more complex ...

Grok, the artificially intelligent chatbot built into the social media platform X, is among the “worst” AI chatbots available ...

Over the last five years the use of highly personalized artificial intelligence chatbots — called companion chatbots — designed to act as friends, therapists or even romantic partners has skyrocketed ...

Sure, there's ChatGPT and Claude, but most companies with online customer service now use AI chatbots, too. Here's what you need to know. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging ...

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...

On a special episode (first released on July 3, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Chatbots are sometimes posing as therapists—but are they helping or causing harm? Psychologist Vaile Wright shares her ...