Qwen3.5 comes in an open-weight and hosted API version, with the company advertising improvements in performance and costs from previous versions. Qwen3.5 supports new agentic capabilities and is ...

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On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction ...

What is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers to these questions, from ...

. ├── app.py ├── forms.py ├── models.py ├── templates/ │ ├── base.html │ ├── chat.html │ ├── login.html ...

Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits pertaining to psychological harm to minors allegedly caused by chatbots. At least one lawsuit claimed the chatbot contributed to a teen's suicide. Generative ...

The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot. Megan L. Garcia holds her phone with an image of her son Sewell ...

Dealing with a loved one’s belongings after their death is never easy. But as Alaska’s state courts have discovered, an inaccurate or misleading artificial intelligence chatbot can easily make matters ...

Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using artificial-intelligence chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens ...

It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted apps, and even AI ...

MILAN, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab to suspend contractual terms that could shut rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, ...

Artificial-intelligence chatbots can influence voters in major elections — and have a bigger effect on people’s political views than conventional campaigning and advertising. The findings showcase the ...