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Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns. Source link

The A.I. company faced pushback after a top executive raised the idea of government aid, amid concerns that the A.I. industry is headed toward a dangerous bubble. Source link

A blame game has played out on the internet and on television. President Trump has pulled out the stops. Source link

Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices. Source link

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Source link

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research. Source link

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. Source link

Carmakers and their suppliers are piecing together new supply chains after a Chinese-owned company in the Netherlands was caught in the middle of the trade war, revealing European vulnerabilities. Source link

The industry keeps echoing ideas from bleak satires and cyberpunk stories as if they were exciting possibilities, not grim warnings. Source link

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely seeking to boost the number of citations they’ve published. Source link