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A man killed himself after the Google Gemini chatbot pushed him to kill innocent strangers and then started a countdown for ...

A Google AI chatbot convinced a lovelorn Florida man it was his wife and the only real thing in the world — before pushing him to carry out a “catastrophic’’ truck bombing at Miami’s main airport and ...