Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

Experts say interacting politely with AI may not improve performance — but can improve human experience Burger King pilots AI assistant Patty to track employee politeness and assist with orders Patty ...

“Ed” was supposed to be an AI-powered “educational friend” for Los Angeles schoolkids, telling them how to do their homework, what time school let out and even where to go to college. But the flopped ...

Burger King is launching an AI chatbot to monitor whether employees are being polite to customers. "Patty," the company's new voice-enabled chatbot, will be live in employees' cloud-connected headsets ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...

Shoppers using Sparky place orders that are, on average, 35% larger, CFO John David Rainey said on a conference call. Sarina Trangle started as a corporate news reporter in October 2024. She ...

We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks. Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what ...

Tesla is rolling out xAI's Grok chatbot to more of its customers' cars, this time in the U.K. and Europe. Elon Musk's AI company (now owned by SpaceX) is facing a myriad of regulatory probes in Europe ...

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the U.S. over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to ...

Shaili Gupta often sees patients who consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health advice. She finds that some of her patients are much more informed about health-related issues and have follow up ...

We look at when you can trust A.I. with your health, and when you can’t. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. For hypochondriacs, A.I. chatbots are a windfall. Ask the computer a few ...