This effort by Microsoft to get consumers to embrace AI across their digital lives is part of a larger trend. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When ...

Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant’s past ...

The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet, but ...

Don’t look now, but the wonks have come out with a way to measure how well AI entities do at forming relationships with people. Specifically, researchers at Hugging Face have come out with something ...

Iris launches alongside the latest version of the In2ition platform, connecting calling, recruiting, coaching, training, certification, and engagement into a unified conversational intelligence system ...

MSI writes that its PC introduces the company's own agentic AI companion, LuckyClaw, which will be available from the machine ...

Many people are turning to chatbots for companionship. Unfortunately, science suggests AI friends will just make you lonelier.