"Rudi" is a red panda that's part of Elon Musk's Grok app. It tells stories aimed at kids. I wondered why they'd make this, so I tried it.

There's a rabbit hole consuming enterprise AI budgets, and it's disguised as innovation. In their rush to deploy custom chatbots and generative tools, companies often fall into an endless chase: new models, new methods and new hype with little strategy and increased risks.

As artificial intelligence technology becomes part of daily life, adolescents are turning to chatbots for advice, guidance and conversation. The appeal is clear: Chatbots are patient, never judgmental,

Alphabet reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and earnings, but the company said it would raise its capital investments by $10 billion in 2025. Shares of the company were up as much as 3% in after-hours trading. The company’s overall revenue grew 14% year over year, higher than the 10.9% Wall Street expected.

The company behind Proton VPN, Proton Mail and Proton Pass, has released an open-source AI chatbot that it says isn't trained on user data.

"The correspondence with generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT is so realistic that one easily gets the impression that there's a real person at the other end," said Soren Dinesen Ostergaard at the Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Tony Robbins has filed a federal trademark suit alleging that YesChat hijacked his name and likeness to make unauthorized AI chatbots.

A Stanford-led study found that most AI chatbots have stopped including medical disclaimers in health responses, raising concerns that users might trust potentially unsafe or unverified advice.

Tufts clinical physician Dr. Alice Connors-Kellgren says she is worried that 70% of teenagers are using an AI chatbot as a friend, advisor or even romantic connection. Connors-Kellgren says that teens are still developing critical thinking skills and sometimes are unable to judge if content is inappropriate.

In the past few years, AI technology has advanced so far to see users have gone straight to machine models for just about anything, and Generations Z and Alpha are leading the trend. Indeed, a May 2025 study by Common Sense Media looked into the social lives of 1,