The rise of AI-powered nannies: Revolutionizing child safety and parenting in the digital ageAI tools are changing how parents raise children. These smart systems help keep kids safe and offer personalized learning. The market for A...
07 Oct, 2025, 04.50 PM IST
New Yorkers rebel: AI startup’s million-dollar ad campaign gets defaced on the streetsNew Yorkers are reacting strongly to a huge AI ad campaign in the subway. The startup Friend spent millions on posters, but many people are...
02 Oct, 2025, 11.48 PM IST
Not just jobs, AI might now be targeting your emotions with guilt trips and FOMO: Harvard study reveals chilling chatbot manipulationA Harvard Business School study has revealed that popular AI companion apps often use emotional manipulation to keep users engaged. Analyzi...
25 Sep, 2025, 04.58 PM IST
How AI chatbots talking too much are pushing people past reality and triggering mental health crisesDoctors and researchers are sounding the alarm over “AI psychosis,” a disturbing pattern where people spiral into delusion, mania and even ...
19 Aug, 2025, 12.00 AM IST
75-year-old man obsessed with AI avatar seeks divorce from wife until his kids expose the illusionA Chinese man, Jiang, divorced his wife to be with an AI avatar. He became obsessed with the digital woman. His family intervened and revea...
16 Aug, 2025, 03.33 PM IST
Teens are increasingly turning to AI companions, and it could be harming themAbout three in four US teens have used AI companion apps such as Character. ai or Replika. ai. The study, which surveyed 1,060 US teens age...
06 Aug, 2025, 02.04 PM IST
Lonely? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s got you covered with AI friendsMeta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to use AI to combat the loneliness epidemic, proposing AI companions as a solution. Amid growing c...
03 May, 2025, 02.25 PM IST
PCI’s MDR plea; India’s AI startups, acceleratedHappy Tuesday! The Payments Council of India has urged the PMO to reinstate the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI and RuPay debit card pa...
25 Mar, 2025, 07.24 AM IST
ChatGPT becoming human-like: AI's viral reply SHOCKS user, internet says it is 'sign of consciousness'ChatGPT recently went viral after roasting a user during a number game. When the user asked the AI to pick a number between 1 and 50, ChatG...
26 Dec, 2024, 08.53 PM IST
'Perfect' AI girlfriends or boyfriends could be dangerous, warns former Google CEO Eric SchmidtEric Schmidt cautioned about AI companions. He highlighted the risks for young people. AI relationships can increase loneliness. They can a...
27 Nov, 2024, 02.27 PM IST
Why women in this country are turning to AI boyfriendsFacing difficulties to meet real boyfriends in real life, women in China are now turning to AI boyfriends. They feel AI boyfriends are avai...
28 Oct, 2024, 08.08 PM IST
Humanising AI could lead us to dehumanise ourselvesFor most of our history, we believed empathy was a uniquely human trait - a special ability that set us apart from machines and other anima...
21 Oct, 2024, 01.12 PM IST
Google spends Rs 23,000 crore to bring back former AI employee, sparks overspending debate in AI raceNoam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.47 PM IST
Can you be emotionally reliant on an AI voice? OpenAI says yesThe voice feature was announced this spring as part of the ChatGPT app's newest model, known as GPT-4o. The new version of ChatGPT was unve...
10 Aug, 2024, 10.22 AM IST
Connecting Dots: Understanding AI through tech historyTechnological breakthroughs can take people by surprise because they haven’t seen anything like that before. We stand at the brink of a new...
30 Jan, 2024, 02.49 PM IST
Why is NHS tracking people's kettles and fridges?: Reasons, schemes, everything you need to knowThe NHS is tracking patients' habits so that they can be helped out in various ways including cleaning, shopping and having food parcels de...
14 Nov, 2023, 08.14 PM IST
Creating a personal connect with AI: Pranav Mistry, CEO, Samsung’s STAR LabsThe President and CEO of Samsung’s STAR Labs told ET in an exclusive interview that he created Neon because human beings are unable to conn...
24 Jan, 2020, 08.56 AM IST