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After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a…
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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion
Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google’s Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and…
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Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation
Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster…
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WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy
Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are…
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‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures
A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak…
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AI startup Tavus founder says users talk to its AI Santa ‘for hours’ per day
A new helper has arrived at the North Pole in recent years: AI. Tavus, the AI startup that…
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Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
Amazon’s AI chatbot, Rufus, saw a surge of adoption on Black Friday, according to new data published over…
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No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it to…
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A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion
Jenny Shao was a practicing physician and was in residency at Harvard. During the pandemic, Shao saw that…