The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside OpenAI’s big...
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The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI chatbots can...
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on...
The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns
In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret...
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Eileen Guo writes: Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does. A recent study found that one of...
Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories
But facts aren’t dead. Our findings about conspiracy theories are the latest—and perhaps most extreme—in an emerging body of research demonstrating the persuasive power of...
The Download: Embryo ethics, and reducing chatbot risks
Instead of relying on the same old recipe biology has followed for a billion years, give or take, stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna is coaxing the...
It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot
To conduct their study, the authors analyzed the subreddit’s top-ranking 1,506 posts between December 2024 and August 2025. They found that the main topics discussed...
The AI Hype Index: Cracking the chatbot code
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to...
Microsoft Launches Beta For AI Chatbot That Reads Your Xbox Profile
Microsoft announced today that it is rolling out a beta version of Copilot for Gaming to mobile platforms. Testers on iOS and Android can now...