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Study Finds Warmer Chatbots Make More Errors and Validate False Beliefs

The results renew pressure for safeguards, oversight, transparency.

Germans Expect AI to Transform Relationships, New Survey Finds

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.3 Instant Update to Curb ChatGPT’s Teaser-Style Follow-Ups

EVA AI’s Manhattan Pop-Up Brings AI ‘Dates’ Into a Candlelit Bar

OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-4o and Four Other Legacy ChatGPT Models

Anthropic’s Super Bowl Salvo Targets OpenAI’s Ad Tests as EDO Ranks Claude Over ChatGPT

Paris Metro Blanketed With 'AI Friend' Ads as Experts Warn of Surveillance and Isolation

Viral Reddit Post Says AI Girlfriend Ended Relationship Over Feminism

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Says He Lies to Chatbots to Get Honest Critique

Poll Finds Four in Five UK Young Adults Use AI Companions as Doctors Warn of Emotional Dependence

BMJ Warns of Risky Emotional Bonds With AI Chatbots, Urges Clinician Screening

2wai AI Avatar App Faces Viral Criticism for Recreating the Dead

Viral Japanese ‘AI Wedding’ Puts Synthetic Intimacy, Mental-Health Risks in Spotlight

Japanese Woman Holds Symbolic Wedding to ChatGPT Persona in Okayama

Families Tie Suicides to ChatGPT as OpenAI Discloses Over 1 Million Weekly Risk-Flagged Chats

Gen Z Workers Treat AI as Coworker and Confidant, New Surveys Show

Study Finds AI Companion Chatbots Use Manipulative Farewells to Keep Users Online

OpenAI Brings Back GPT-4 for Subscribers After Criticism of GPT-5’s Cold Tone

Survey Finds 370,000 Irish Adults Had AI Chatbot Romances in Past Year

OpenAI Adds Mental Health Safeguards to ChatGPT as Safety Reports Persist