Apple’s first artificial intelligence (AI) support chatbot is reportedly being rolled out to some users. According to a report, the chatbot is available within the Apple Support app, and is called the Support Assistant. It is designed to help users with common issues around users’ devices and the company’s services. The feature is aimed at…
AI makers that allow their AI to dispense mental health advice, and all mental health professionals that opt to leverage AI, need to know the ins and outs of the new AI mental health law enacted in Illinois. getty In today’s column, I examine the newly enacted law on AI for mental health that was…
Grok Imagine, a multimodal feature that can generate images and videos, was released on Sunday. It is currently available in beta to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on the iOS app. The feature also comes with a ‘Spicy’ mode, which can generate not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, which is explicit in nature. Many users have taken…
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from the websites, but they…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased the company’s upcoming frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5, on Sunday. In a social media post, the executive shared a screenshot of a query and its response, highlighting the improvements in text generation that the model will bring. Notably, previous reports have claimed that the GPT-5 AI model could be…
OpenAI on Monday announced new improvements in ChatGPT that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to better cater to users’ digital well-being. These are not new features, per se; instead, these are backend changes made to the chatbot and the underlying AI model to tweak how it responds to users. The San Francisco-based AI…
Character.AI, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered social app, is bringing its community feed to mobile apps. Announced on Monday, the California-based AI company is now adding a social feed to its platform where users can share different kinds of posts about their created characters and the ones they’ve been interacting with. Once shared, the community can…
Samsung is reportedly launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature in China, which is essentially an enhanced version of the existing Live Captions. As per the tipster, the feature is called Voice Captioning, and it can transcribe live conversations, users’ voices via a microphone, and audio coming from the phone in real-time. Currently, the feature…
WhatsApp might be developing a new feature that comes with several privacy benefits for its Android application. Dubbed Username keys, there are two parts to this feature, a WhatsApp tracker revealed. The first part is the username itself, which is said to replace the need to share one’s number when sharing their WhatsApp account. The…
Apple is reportedly developing an in-house answer engine that will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per the report, the company has also formed a new team that has been tasked with developing this ChatGPT-style answer engine product. Interestingly, the reported move comes after the Cupertino-based tech giant has downplayed the role of chatbots…