About 60% of U.S. adults say they read AI summaries at the top of search engine results, while about 30% say they don’t, and 10% are unsure. When a Google AI Overview accompanies search results, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in ...

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) are being integrated into the mental health industry for counseling, therapy, and companionship. A recent Brown University study ...

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Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...

Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...