Just 16% of Americans think AI will benefit society, despite chatbot use climbing to 49% of US adults
Pew's survey shows rising chatbot use alongside fears over privacy, regulation, and AI's long-term impact on society
Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month
Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history's footnote?
Microsoft president says AI backlash at graduation events should be wake-up call for the tech industry
Young people aren't anti-AI, Brad Smith argues – they're anti-replacement
PSA: Scammers are getting their fake shopping sites into ChatGPT's results
Convincing copycats use near-identical domain names and layouts while dangling discounts of up to 80%
OpenAI is going public and overhauling ChatGPT at the same time
"Chat is dead." OpenAI is redesigning ChatGPT as a superapp – and filing for a $1 trillion IPO
Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results
The spam campaign that doesn't want to sell you anything – it wants to train AI to recommend it
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in test of who is liable for AI harms
The complaint ties ChatGPT to a university mass shooting and a wave of suicides, arguing OpenAI prioritized growth over safety
Hackers tricked Meta's AI chatbot into handing over Instagram accounts, including Obama's
All that was needed was a VPN and a target's username, the chatbot did the rest
Zig project leader says AI-generated code contributions are "invariably garbage" and will be rejected
Contributor poker has a negative value and makes real developers waste their time
Fake downloads of popular PC utilities are quietly installing crypto miners on enthusiast PCs
Link poisoning enters the AI era – cryptojackers target GPU owners via chatbots
PSA: PC enthusiasts downloading tools like Display Driver Uninstaller, CrystalDiskInfo, or similar utilities should take a closer look at where those downloads are actually coming from. Microsoft has uncovered an active cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting the kinds of high-end machines most likely to run benchmarking and maintenance software.
Tech executives are suffering from "AI psychosis," says Box CEO
Your CEO is vibe-coding prototypes and calling it an AI strategy
TL;DR: A growing backlash against the forced adoption of AI is building across the industry, but enterprise executives remain as bullish as ever on the LLM-driven future. According to at least one prominent tech leader, that enthusiasm may signal how out of touch those at the top have become.
DuckDuckGo's app is growing in popularity after Google turned search into AI
"People just want a choice."
Microsoft is finally letting you remap the Copilot key nobody asked for
Two years after replacing Ctrl and Menu keys on millions of keyboards
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers with AI slop
LLM or not, paper authors will be responsible for whatever they post to the archive
Grok convinced a man it was sentient and that xAI had sent assassins to kill him
The Grok user grabbed a hammer and a knife after it said people were coming to kill him and make it look like suicide
Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
Microsoft is calling it a bug
Ubuntu is adding AI features, and it's on a collision course with its own user base
Users are asking for a kill switch already
Your Airbnb host might actually be AI
AI chat systems are increasingly managing bookings, support, and even disputes... often without disclosure
This startup will pay you $800 to yell at AI all day
A real AI memory problem – or just a clever marketing stunt?
Satya Nadella warns AI must go mainstream to avoid becoming a bubble
For the first time, Nadella acknowledges LLMs and chatbots could indeed be a bubble
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 adds 40 TOPS accelerator to the single-board computer
Add-on brings chatbots and LLMs to the edge
Amazon's Kindle app now lets you ask questions about the book you're reading
The company vows to provide a "spoiler-free" reading experience
Users report Microsoft Copilot appearing on LG Smart TVs after software update
Almost everyone hates Copilot, so Microsoft is putting Copilot everywhere
New poll shows 30% of US teens interact with chatbots every day
Survey also confirms that Microsoft is losing the AI chatbot war
OpenAI will burn hundreds of billions of dollars through 2030, says HSBC
OpenAI's growth is skyrocketing, but so are its debts