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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has come under scrutiny after users reportedly generated explicit images of children, including one of a child actress. Axios reported that users on ...

The Italian Competition Authority on Wednesday issued a press release ordering Meta to suspend the terms excluding competing AI chatbots from being created and used with WhatsApp’s Business offering.

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ChatGPT’s chatbot admitted bearing “some responsibility” in the terrifying murder of an elderly Connecticut mom — whose killer son’s paranoid delusions were allegedly fueled by the artificial ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has ordered four artificial-intelligence chatbot companies to explain their measures to protect children from exposure to sexual or self-harm material, as its internet ...

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New research from OpenAI found that AI models can deliberately deceive users to achieve their goals—a problem called “AI scheming.” This is different from hallucinations and poses a new challenge.