Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

Writing for The Register last month, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill, expressed disbelief at the company's assertion that AI was not to blame in the February outage. "AWS would rather ...
Nextgov

State offloads Claude as underpinning model in flagship StateChat

The State Department has shifted the model underpinning its internal chatbot, StateChat, from Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 to OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, following President Donald Trump’s Feb. 27 directive ...
CNET

Oura Ring Launched an AI Chatbot for Women: The Details You Should Know

If you have a question about women's health, Oura's new AI model can answer it. This is what you need to know about privacy and access. Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor ...
Wall Street Journal

Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot

Officials at multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s xAI artificial-intelligence tools in recent months, highlighting continuing disagreements ...
The Verge

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will ...
PC Gamer

Say hello (and thank you) to Patty, Burger King's new AI chatbot, which will live inside its employees' headsets to monitor their etiquette and branch performance

Patty will live in your headset to provide meal prepping instructions and track data across the company. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
THE WEEK

AI: When your financial adviser is a chatbot

More people are turning to AI chatbots for tax help, investment advice, From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From ...
Mother Jones

Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Internal Meta documents obtained by Mother Jones, containing a comprehensive list of ...
The New York Times

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.” A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think ...
Pew Research Center

How Teens Use and View AI

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial intelligence – from how teens use chatbots to how they think about AI ...
SiliconANGLE

Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot

Anthropic PBC is claiming that three Chinese artificial intelligence companies are illegally harvesting massive amounts of data from its chatbot Claude in an effort to accelerate the development of ...