[Allie Maloney] Harms of AI chatbots for kids
A new report warns that AI-powered chatbots that simulate friendship and emotional intimacy pose serious risks to children, with 64% of teens using AI chatbots and 28% using them daily. The report, au…
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and popularised large language models for mainstream use.
A new report warns that AI-powered chatbots that simulate friendship and emotional intimacy pose serious risks to children, with 64% of teens using AI chatbots and 28% using them daily. The report, au…
Two medical professionals, Simar Bajaj of Stanford University School of Medicine and Joseph Sakran of Johns Hopkins Medicine, warn in a Guardian essay that medical students' reliance on AI tools like …
OpenAI launched a preview of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, August 11th, extending ChatGPT, Work, and Codex to Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. The release c…
GitGuardian highlights that agentic AI systems are widening the gap in non-human identity (NHI) security and governance, as organizations prioritize capability over least privilege. The company argues…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on X that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly users, making it Google's fastest-growing product ever, while OpenAI revealed in an August 6 blog post that ChatGPT al…
OpenAI has released a preview of its official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, making the app available on all major operating systems. The Linux version supports running Codex in local repositories, co…
Former lead writer for Saber Interactive's upcoming game claims the company replaced him with ChatGPT midway through development, and that AI use is not disclosed on the game's Steam page. The writer,…
OpenAI launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, extending ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex to Linux users worldwide. The preview release supports Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debi…
Resoneo, a French SEO consultancy, analyzed 1,249 ChatGPT answers captured in July and found that OpenAI's in-house search index, codenamed 'labrador,' served hundreds of small websites without an Ope…
OpenAI officially documents the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows and macOS, not Linux, according to the company's public announcements. Third-party Linux wrappers and ports are independent projects and…
Hank Green, the veteran YouTube star and science communicator, announced a new personal AI policy after facing backlash for using AI as a research aid, vowing that no script portion will be written, e…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach that milestone and one of the company's fastest-gr…
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app is reportedly available in preview for Linux, marking the first official native client for the platform after years of unofficial workarounds. The preview follows a waitli…
A Hacker News user, logicallee, announced that in three hours the State of Utopia will publish a congressional report on a coding task failure by an AI agent, unless the matter is resolved before the …
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday he is leaving the ChatGPT maker to 'start something new,' becoming the latest in a string of executive departures at the company. Ligh…
Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that allows extraction of encrypted reasoning traces and transfer between models, with a scan of public sessions…
Quantum computing, despite decades of development, has yet to achieve practical, scalable solutions, but its history may mirror that of AI, which saw a sudden transformation when OpenAI released ChatG…
Google's Gemini AI app has reached 950 million monthly active users as of Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings report, up from 650 million in October 2025 and 750 million in February 2026, positioning it to su…
Daniel Freeman, a scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is developing transcranial ultrasound and AI methods to identify the neural basis of conscious experience, and he suggests that intelligence may …
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT Ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea on August 11, following the initial U.S. launch on February 9. The ads appear below responses for free…