DoorDash launched a new chatbot that lets users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts. It's a market that's becoming a major testing ground for agentic AI tools.

When today’s teenagers and young adults are struggling emotionally, some are turning not only to friends, family members and therapists but also to artificial intelligence. Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents ...

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...

Meet Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's 2 famous children Mexican restaurant chain ends US expansion, closes all locations A diver stumbled upon the treasure of a lifetime—and it may lead to a hidden ...

Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, with Meta One Plus at $7.99/month and Meta One Premium at $19.99/month. The rollout begins in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia ...

Abstract: Speech emotional recognition (SER) focuses on developing computers' comprehension and response to human emotional tones and is a key field of research in human-machine interaction. This ...

Disney is being sued over use of facial recognition technology at its amusement parks. The class action lawsuit alleges that the entertainment brand does not adequately inform guests that it scans ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Eight months later, the user of that ChatGPT account, 18-year-old Jesse Van ...

A troubling New Orleans face recognition program revealed by a Washington Post investigation last year continues to operate despite violating a city law and a claim that it has been paused, and is ...

Australia became the first country to impose a social media ban for kids, but in Canada, Manitoba is already on its way to introducing the same policy. The province is expected to restrict AI chatbot ...

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of ...