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AssemblyAI published a tutorial for building a server-side Agora voice agent using Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime, LLM Gateway ...

Note: This analysis is an excerpt from a broader June 2026 study about Americans and artificial intelligence. This study is a part of Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore how Americans use ...

Kentucky says bots encourage suicide, self-injury Company was founded by former Google employees Character.AI has said it prioritizes user safety Oct 8 (Reuters) - Chatbots created by AI companion ...

Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services Death has always been around Alaina Winters. Her father and sister ...

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Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the ...

Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has covered artificial intelligence for more than 15 years. Last ...

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You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shane Mac, the 40-year-old CEO of software company XMTP Labs. It ...

Shane Mac had been using a personal AI agent since August without issue when the startup chief executive got pinged by one of his employees: a “heads up” about a team Slack message that had a ...