China's biggest tech giants, including ByteDance and Alibaba, are stripping AI companion features from their platforms ahead of sweeping new government regulations governing human-AI interactions, signaling a massive industry-wide compliance push.
LangBot launches an open-source platform enabling developers to connect major AI models like OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini to top messaging apps including Discord, Telegram, and WeChat from a single, production-ready codebase with no YAML configuration required.
A Washington Post test reveals major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Grok, and even models marketed as conservative, display left-leaning political bias in responses, with Google's Gemini standing alone as the only model consistently offering balanced perspectives — a troubling finding as nearly half of Americans now turn to AI for …
Tencent is testing an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, giving it a massive edge over rivals by embedding task-completing AI capabilities directly into a platform used by over 1.4 billion people.
AI chatbot usage among U.S. adults surges to nearly 50%, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption, yet 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too fast and a majority fear it will compromise personal security and negatively impact society over the next 20 years.
Meta is rolling out an AI-powered search mode on Facebook that generates answers from public posts and user content, sparking reliability concerns over potentially misleading information, while simultaneously launching creative AI tools and global subscription plans starting at $3.99 a month.
Facebook launches AI Mode, a revolutionary search feature powered by Meta AI that pulls real user opinions from across Meta's apps, alongside creative tools that let users virtually change their clothing and appearance using AI-generated photo presets.
Mark Zuckerberg admits Meta made mistakes during its AI-driven overhaul, following mass layoffs affecting 10% of its workforce, as the company now scrambles to rebuild morale, rehire displaced workers, and promises no further company-wide layoffs this year.
Meta is in the grip of a company-wide morale crisis, with thousands of employees calling their work 'soul-crushing,' over 1,600 signing a petition against keystroke monitoring, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting restructuring mistakes in an internal memo while promising no further mass layoffs and pledging workplace improvements.
ChatGPT claims the top spot on the iPhone App Store's free charts, as AI-powered apps including Claude, Google Gemini, and Meta AI flood the top 20 alongside social media giants, while puzzle games like Meowdoku and Magic Sort dominate the free games rankings.