We look at when you can trust A.I. with your health, and when you can’t. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. For hypochondriacs, A.I. chatbots are a windfall. Ask the computer a few ...

Michael Meyer is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Santa Clara University and a faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. For social creatures like us, ...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands ...

Qwen3.5 comes in an open-weight and hosted API version, with the company advertising improvements in performance and costs from previous versions. Qwen3.5 supports new agentic capabilities and is ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

Shaili Gupta often sees patients who consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health advice. She finds that some of her patients are much more informed about health-related issues and have follow up ...

Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super Bowl ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining ...

AI chatbots are providing inaccurate and inconsistent information that could have serious implications for patients' health. A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Nuffield Department ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...