(The Hill) – Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, plans to roll out new safety features for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to help protect teens amid growing concerns about ...

ByteDance’s Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model. Now, ByteDance has gotten its revenge. By August, Doubao ...

Anish Mehta, a computer science engineer, grew up in a culture that he said did not address mental health concerns even when he knew he could have benefitted from therapy. So when he was searching for ...

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has built what is currently the most popular AI chatbot in China: Doubao. Launched in 2023, the app has risen to the top of the country’s generative AI market, ...

Two senators said they are announcing bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors, after complaints from ...

Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI ...

Flamekeeper. Mirrorwalker. Echo architect. These are some of the fantastical titles that people have assigned themselves after days, weeks, or months of simulated conversations with AI chatbots. David ...

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