The Globe’s personal finance reporters asked ChatGPT and Gemini for product recommendations to test the shopping capabilities of generative AI bots ...

The rumor seemingly dates back to at least December, when comedians Max Silvestri, Jenny Slate, and Gabe Liedman discussed the topic of a prominent Hollywood actor dating a chatbot during an episode ...

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

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Microsoft warns of a campaign on chat platforms where attackers slip malware to victims as supposed gaming tools.

Sex bots are having a moment, and for good reason. From customizable personalities and NSFW roleplay to emotional support and AI-generated art, today’s AI sex platforms deliver a new kind of intimacy ...

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

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Millions of Americans now converse with AI chatbots each day. We are talking with machines about travel plans, politics, and in some cases — our most intimate thoughts. To investigate how these ...

Can computer programs have faith? Can they conspire against the humans that created them? Or feel melancholy? On a social media platform built just for artificial intelligence bots, some of them are ...

Moltbook is the world’s first social network designed exclusively for artificial intelligence. Launched in late January 2026 by Matt Schlicht, head of the commerce platform Octane AI, the site mimics ...