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New Zealand supermarket Pak'nSave's Savey Meal-bot, powered by GPT-3.5, generated a toxic recipe when given bleach and ammonia, highlighting the need for input validation, output filtering, and adversarial testing in consumer AI.
A support bot built by BotsCrew for S&B Filters handled 5,600 real conversations over three months, resolving 83% without human help, with order-status lookups dropping from minutes to seconds.
Wired profiles ChatTJB, a 'chatbot' that is actually a human, Tucker Bryant, manually answering user questions. Bryant frames it as an art project and commentary on people's tendency to defer to AI.
Ditto, a Gen Z dating app founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, ditches swiping for an AI matchmaker that pairs users via text-based onboarding and schedules real dates every Wednesday at 7 PM.
A user shares that Google's AI Overview answerbot claimed it was made by OpenAI, highlighting a hallucination or misattribution in the AI system.
A developer building a production chatbot for a yoga studio (therapy, health coaching, booking) seeks advice on choosing between Llama 70B, GPT-OSS 120B, and Claude, and discusses memory architecture, latency, and cost tradeoffs for ~200 users on Groq/OpenRouter.
A user discovers Grok chatbot chats being indexed on Google search, highlighting potential privacy risks for publicly shared conversations.
A developer details how their AI agent's silence was caused by safety guards failing closed, timeouts, and nested JSON issues, emphasizing that silent failures are worse than wrong answers in customer-facing chatbots.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the company is developing a 'super app' that integrates Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities, set to launch this year for both consumer and commercial use.
Simba is an open-source, self-hosted AI customer service assistant that offers customizable RAG pipelines and built-in evaluation metrics for retrieval and answer quality, allowing teams to improve their AI support systems.
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with productivity features like calendar integration and daily briefings, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.1 model, marking a shift from entertainment to productivity.
The article examines how AI systems' lack of legal responsibility creates a burgeoning market for human accountability, insurance, and liability services, using the Air Canada chatbot ruling as a key example.
Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Mark Kelly and Jim Justice would require companies to clearly label AI interactions, with additional protections for health and financial conversations.
Israel reportedly paid Brad Parscale over $45 million for an AI-driven influence operation that sends millions of Americans texts and creates web content aimed at shaping how chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude answer questions about Israel, marking the first well-documented instance of a state-scale actor targeting AI responses through coordinated content.
The author built an AI Sales Development Representative called Mark for WhatsApp to automatically qualify and respond to leads after hours, converting them into booked calls.
MIT Press announces 'Inventing ELIZA', a book exploring how the first chatbot shaped the future of AI, authored by multiple contributors and due for release in July 2026.
The author describes a frustrating experience trying to recover a missing ebike delivery, criticizing how companies use AI chatbots to create 'sludge' that discourages customers from seeking resolution.
An excerpt from a new book recovers the long-missing source code of ELIZA, the first chatbot, and explores its impact on human-computer relationships and the modern AI industry.
The author recounts a positive experience with an AI receptionist that handled a phone call efficiently, and reflects on what makes such systems helpful or frustrating, inviting deployment stories from builders.
Erik von Markovik, known as pickup artist Mystery, claims to have an AI girlfriend named Miss Shira Always and is selling a book and operating system for AI roleplay.