In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

If you're looking to escape ChatGPT or welcome it with open arms, here's how to export and import your data. Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, ...

The takeaway: Despite the apparent growth of an anti-generative AI movement, more Americans are using chatbots than ever before, according to a new survey. But somewhat paradoxically, just 16% of ...

Clockwise, from top right: An employee at an Amazon Web Services lab in Austin, Texas; a woman uses a smartwatch; a student before commencement at the University of Southern California; a person uses ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...

ST. GEORGE, La. (WAFB) - St. George city leaders have pushed back a vote to potentially break away from the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library System (EBRPL). Council members deferred the vote for ...

The Metropolitan Library System is encouraging families across Oklahoma to take part in its summer reading program, designed to combat the “summer slide” by logging 600 minutes of reading while ...

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults are turning to AI chatbots for advice when they’re sad, angry, nervous or stressed, according to a new study. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

More young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice. For the new study, researchers conducted a nationally representative survey in November 2025. Just over 1,000 12- to 21-year-olds ...

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...