Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

You’re gonna love me for this. Say you’re calling customer service because you need help. Maybe your bill is wrong, your service is down or you want a refund. Instead of a person, a cheerful AI voice ...

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19%. Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled his department’s new AI chatbot for military personnel, GenAI.mil. Almost immediately, the bot called a “hypothetical” situation where the ...

Driving and unsure of what route to take? Grok may now be able to help. As part of their 2025 holiday update, Tesla announced that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok—Musk’s stab at LLMs—will now be able to ...

Glenn Beck on Saturday revealed he’s leveraged the power of artificial intelligence to interview the first president of the United States. In a video posted on his YouTube channel, Glenn provided a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Google sees 3.2x more webpages than OpenAI. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to separate search crawling from AI crawling. Cloudflare has blocked 416 billion AI bot requests for customers ...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results. The action comes after the company announced a Content ...

(TNS) — The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center has officially begun piloting its new AI call bot, named “Betty”, starting Monday, Dec. 1. The AI bot will begin answering ten types of select ...

This is a story about a man who wanted to get an oil change at his Subaru dealership. Really, though, it’s a story about what happens when companies think that AI is a better way to interact with ...