In these experiments, people who interacted with a sycophantic chatbot were more likely to say that they were in the right and less likely to apologize or make amends than were people who interacted ...

OpenAI ​has shelved plans to ‌release an erotic chatbot indefinitely as it looks to ​focus on its core ​products, according ...

There is enormous hype around the powerful AI bot OpenClaw in China. A warning from the cybersecurity center suggests where it has all been installed. China's cybersecurity authority CNCERT/CC has ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

House Republicans have a new card up their sleeve to help bring legislation to the Senate floor: AI. A new AI tool, called the Byrd Bot, was developed by the conservative Republican Study Committee to ...

Pigeons have historically served as messengers for humans, but a Russian startup claims to take this to a new level—effectively “hacking” pigeon brains to turn them into biological drones. In a recent ...

OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has gone viral as an "AI that actually does things." Security experts have warned against joining the trend and using the AI assistant without caution ...

Graham blocks Trump-backed spending plan, calls it a 'bad deal' as shutdown nears Catherine O'Hara, "Beetlejuice" and "Home Alone" star, dies at 71 Oops, scientists ...

A prolific initial access broker tracked as TA584 has been observed using the Tsundere Bot alongside XWorm remote access trojan to gain network access that could lead to ransomware attacks. Proofpoint ...

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Elon Musk's xAI faced backlash for recent Grok chatbot posts of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized images of children on X. The company responded to a request for comment with an autoreply: ...

In December 2024, Canadian rapper and part-time Texas resident Drake filed a lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar, Universal Music Group, and iHeartMedia, alleging that Lamar's diss song targeting him was ...