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It's something we all do multiple times a week: We manually add things to our calendar while copying details over from an email. What if a bot could do that work for you?That's the idea behind Fwd2cal, a currently free project by Moe Adham…

The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it is going to end the web as we’ve known it.AI is already upending the economic covenant of the internet that’s existed since the advent of search: A few companies (mostly…

Artificial intelligence is now busy tackling some of the biggest problems to face humankind: Speeding up drug design, tackling cancer detection, and finding solutions to climate change. However, none of these issues are arguably as daunting…

The burgeoning field of social-emotional AI is tackling the very jobs that people used to think were reserved for human beings—jobs that rely on emotional connections, such as therapists, teachers, and coaches. AI is now widely used in…

Perplexity’s Election Information Hub might also blur the line between verified and free-wheeling AI-generated information. While some results come directly from trusted sources, searching for more information triggered open-ended…

As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his avatar, a kind of platypus cartoon figure in a detective's trench coat or sometimes a hoodie. To avoid…

Matthew Sag, a distinguished professor at Emory University who researches copyright and artificial intelligence, concurs. Even if a user creates a bot intentionally designed to cause emotional distress, the tech platform likely can’t be…

Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have policies prohibiting nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, with many of the biggest agreeing…

According to Dark Visitors founder Gavin King, most of the major AI agents still abide by robots.txt. “That’s been pretty consistent,” he says. But not all website owners have the time or knowledge to constantly update their robots.txt…

The first time I used SocialAI, I was sure the app was performance art. That was the only logical explanation for why I would willingly sign up to have AI bots named Blaze Fury and Trollington Nefarious, well, troll me.Even the app’s…