Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting where it considered treating artificial intelligence mental health chatbots as medical devices. As ...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Quentin first downloaded a character chatbot when he was 13. He ...

Photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier holds a Soviet made RPG-7 anti-tank launcher during training at the frontline, 26 January 2026. Republican leaders react to ...