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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.
TigrimOSR v0.6.2 introduces Open Loop Engineering, allowing users to define custom agent loops via YAML profiles, integrates the Obscura Rust browser for web automation, and adds LINE/Telegram bot control. The release emphasizes transparency and user control over agent behavior.
The article expresses genuine curiosity about AI-powered romantic companions, exploring the concept of AI boyfriends and girlfriends.
A reflection on building a support bot reveals that users often do not search for help, highlighting key behavioral patterns for AI support design.
Plurality is a fully free and open-source local AI platform that combines agentic workflows with a chatbot interface, supporting background processing, sandboxed shell/file access, and compatibility with skills and MCP.
A discussion on how to crawl an entire website to train a RAG chatbot, covering strategies and challenges.
Intelli is a product that converts leads into customers using AI-powered conversations.
Adobe has launched AI assistants in public beta for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, allowing users to automate tasks via natural language prompts.