Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th.

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple ’s App Store in the US and ...

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

According to new research by McAfee, there has been an alarming rise in AI-driven romance scams. Nearly 17% of people ...

Do people really fall in love with AI? I dated bots from four different companies for a week—and found out it was easier than ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

In this edition of This Week in AI, TechCrunch's regular AI newsletter, we talk SoftBank's job-automating plans for OpenAI's ...

With DeepSeek shaking up the AI world, SFGATE columnist Drew Magary asked its competitors a bunch of dumb questions, and got ...

The amount of fraudulent dating apps and deepfake scams have also been on the rise, making it difficult for people looking ...