Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton, the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a public AI chatbot, Lumo, last year. On Tuesday, the chatbot ...

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ...
ADTmag

TomEE 11 Milestone and Hibernate ORM 8 Beta Signal Jakarta EE Modernization Push

Open-source Java projects advance Jakarta EE compatibility, persistence capabilities, and developer tooling as enterprise teams prepare for the next generation of Java applications.
Gizmodo

Infamous Front-Running Crypto Bot ‘Jaredfromsubway’ Gets Tricked and Drained for $7.5M

One of Ethereum’s most notorious trading bots just got beaten at its own game. Jaredfromsubway.eth, a crypto trading bot long associated with front-running on-chain DeFi trades and a name that ...
NBC News

U.S. and Iran reach framework deal to end war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz

The United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to President Donald Trump and Iranian officials. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...
TechCrunch

DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...
CNBC

DoorDash lets customers use photos, prompts to order food and book reservations in latest AI push

DoorDash launched a new chatbot that lets users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts. It's a market that's becoming a major testing ground for agentic AI tools.
CNN

For better or worse, young people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support

When today’s teenagers and young adults are struggling emotionally, some are turning not only to friends, family members and therapists but also to artificial intelligence. Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents ...
InfoWorld

It’s crunch time for Java modernization

End-of-support is coming for four long-term support versions of Java, starting in 2029. Avoid the stress of parallel modernization projects and get started now. Between 2029 and 2032, every currently ...
siliconcanals

MIT Media Lab and OpenAI tracked nearly 1,000 ChatGPT users for four weeks, but the early finding cut against the comfort the chatbot promised — heavier daily use was tied to ...

Picture someone at the end of a long day. Picture someone at the end of a long day. The apartment is quiet. They open ChatGPT, not to draft an email or debug a script, but to say something close to: ...
The New Yorker

Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...