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Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize on OpenAI's planned integration of ads into ChatGPT. On Wednesday, Anthropic said free Claude users can now create files, connect to ...

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OpenAI (OPENAI) has warned U.S. lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the ...

With the abundance of AI chatbots that have emerged over the past several years, we wanted to get an idea of what our readers are using and why. Our most recent poll included many of the most popular ...

Shaili Gupta often sees patients who consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health advice. She finds that some of her patients are much more informed about health-related issues and have follow-up ...

Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super Bowl ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company's refusal to loosen its safety standards. The threat ...

You might be trusting AI in ways that can cause serious trouble. I've tested chatbots extensively, and these are 10 tasks I'd never let them handle. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...