Mattel and other toy companies have been working on AI toys that are expected to be unveiled in 2026, but child safety groups have raised concerns about products already being sold.

The makers of these AI ChatBuddy models are building these emotional attachment hooks into the product. Then they tweak those ...

The bot has been marketed as a general-purpose tool that can write code, summarize documents and give advice. But can it be a ...

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...

Bengio, a pioneer of AI, tricks chatbots for honest feedback. He launched LawZero to address dangerous AI behavior.

Yoshua Bengio, one of the "AI godfathers," said AI technology has a sycophancy problem, so he lies to chatbots to get better ...

ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It’s rolling out a “Year in Review” feature that will ...

"Feral" gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, ...

Why are the Tampa Bay Times and others around the world still celebrating Festivus, a holiday introduced to the world by a 1997 “Seinfeld” episode? Because the Festivus tradition of the Airing of ...

Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

The fact that it is so helpful and pleasant goes against learning,” says Jaan Aru, a computer science professor at the ...

A live-streamed experiment puts rival AI systems in a shared digital house to see how they collaborate, clash and ...