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As users form emotional bonds with AI companions, companies like Anthropic are rethinking what it means to “turn off” a model ...

The decisions by major AI companies—xAI in July, Meta in August, and OpenAI last month—to open their chatbots to erotica have ...

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Miss Friends? Don’t settle for yet another rerun of the classic ‘90s sitcom. Given the text of every Friends episode ever, a recurrent neural network can generate new scripts that are funnier than the ...

The company’s updated WhatsApp Business API policy confirmed that popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Luzia will be removed from the platform. The new rules will take effect on January 15, ...

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