With fuel prices much higher, some drivers may be thinking about using a different grade of gasoline. That might not be a good idea. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com AI-generated summary ...

More young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice. For the new study, researchers conducted a nationally representative survey in November 2025. Just over 1,000 12- to 21-year-olds ...

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 ...

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) are being integrated into the mental health industry for counseling, therapy, and companionship. A recent Brown University study ...

This content is sponsored by Long Fence. Each day, you probably use a variety of expressions, idioms, proverbs, and slang that aren’t meant to be taken literally. If you’ve ever wondered why we say ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...

Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...

A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company is using AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the ...

Google AI has introduced a major breakthrough with TurboQuant, a system that reduces KV cache memory usage by up to 6x while improving chatbot efficiency during real-time conversations. This allows AI ...

Australia became the first country to impose a social media ban for kids, but in Canada, Manitoba is already on its way to introducing the same policy. The province is expected to restrict AI chatbot ...

Anthropic is experiencing elevated error rates across its Claude chatbot, its application programming interface and Claude Code, according to the company's status ...

Anthropic said this week it accidentally leaked internal source code for its popular AI chatbot Claude Code. The leak stemmed from version 2.1.88 of the @anthropic-ai ...