This week
We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt.
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Futurism ChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature has a major privacy catch
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TechRadar Using AI to offer personalized health advice
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Nature This month
SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
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Engadget The US government's new AI chatbot gives Minecraft's end poem a bureaucratic twist
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Covered by 2 sources Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks
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Engadget Apple Finally Built a Smarter Siri. It Still Hasn’t Caught Up in the AI Race.
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The Wall Street Journal Musk’s xAI Resolves Claims Against Apple Over AI Competition
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+2Covered by 5 sources How to use GPT-6 Astra when it rolls out to you
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Engadget China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”
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IEEE Spectrum Free OpenHelper AI Chatbot v2 Preview is coming with many features
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Hacker News Chat Bots Compared: An interactive quiz to find AI companions
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Hacker News Free accounts can now access ChatGPT's upgraded task scheduling tool
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Engadget ChatGPT Plugin Can Now Read And Send Your iMessages, But Should It?
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Forbes ChatGPT: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
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Engadget How to use Claude's voice mode
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Engadget OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
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+3Covered by 6 sources The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions
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Covered by 2 sources New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand
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Futurism Consultants have found an unlikely new career path: policing AI
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Business Insider No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter
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The Guardian Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
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Wired Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI
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The Next Web Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds
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The Next Web OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself
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The Next Web Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds
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The Guardian Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
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Gizmodo Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots
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Hugging Face Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters
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The Guardian With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
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TechCrunch Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
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TechCrunch Making AI chatbots more friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories, study finds
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The Guardian Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds
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Futurism Unregulated chatbots are putting lives at risk | Letters
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The Guardian Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users
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Futurism Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them
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Gizmodo US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots
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The Guardian Lonely People Are Better Off Texting Strangers Than Messaging a Chatbot, Study Finds
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Gizmodo ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks
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The Guardian ‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom
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The Guardian One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: crowdsource the chatbots
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TechCrunch ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
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The Guardian That's everything we have on Chatbots right now