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San Francisco Artist Reopens Human-Run ‘AI’ Chat After Viral Surge

The project now runs with a small team, content filters, and crisis resources to manage overwhelming demand and protect volunteers.

Conduit Announces Ambition to Decode Thoughts From Scaled Non‑Invasive EEG Data

Aina Raises $5.5 Million to Build Action-Oriented AI Hardware

Experts Say AI Companions Ease Loneliness but Cannot Replace Human Bonds

Nous Research Details Hermes Agent as an Open‑Source, On‑Prem Assistant That Learns Over Time

Study Finds GPT‑4.5 Can Be Mistaken for a Human in Short Text Chats

Thinking Machines Introduces Interaction Models for Real-Time, Multimodal AI

iRobot Founder Unveils ‘Familiar,’ an AI Robotic Pet Built for Emotional Support

Pi Network Cofounders to Speak at Consensus 2026 on Proving Humanity Online

Meta Is Reportedly Building a Photorealistic Mark Zuckerberg AI Avatar for Staff Meetings

MIT Papers Warn Sycophantic Chatbots Entrench Beliefs, Risk Knowledge Decline

Meta Releases TRIBE v2, an Open Model That Predicts Brain Responses to Sight, Sound and Language

Steve Wozniak Says Today’s AI Lacks Reliability and Human Understanding

AI2 Launches MolmoWeb, an Open Visual Web Agent

‘Your AI Slop Bores Me’ Goes Viral, Turning People Into Chatbots

Microsoft Releases Phi‑4‑Reasoning‑Vision‑15B on Foundry and Hugging Face

Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Advance Claude’s Computer-Use Skills

Hannah Fry’s ‘AI Confidential’ Puts Chatbots’ Psychological Risks Under the Microscope

Google Sets Hardware and UI Standards for Android XR Glasses With Glimmer

Pope Leo XIV Warns of 'Affectionate' Chatbots, Calls for Regulation and Clear AI Labels