LM Studio has always been a great way to use local models on the Mac. Its Model Search tool lets users easily check which available models are best suited to their Mac’s specs, and the app has been ...

Spotify has announced a new conversational AI feature called “Talk to Spotify” that puts a text-and-voice chatbot directly into the app. The feature allows users to control playback, save songs, ask ...

When restaurant operators talk to AI chatbots, what do they talk about? Toast, the POS supplier to more than 170,000 U.S. restaurants, has some answers. The company on Tuesday published data about how ...

Maryland is rewriting how state governments interact with AI — starting with a single text file. “We’re just doing our part to make sure AI can get the most relevant information at the time.” David ...

Gopher is now more than just an interactive user manual. Gopher is now more than just an interactive user manual. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and ...

A new Gartner survey finds customers are roughly three times more likely to turn to third-party GenAI tools than company chatbots for customer service issues. Customers aren't rejecting AI. They're ...

We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts. In addition to ...

This year’s Digital News Report marked a notable milestone: for the first time, social and video networks overtook news publishers as a source of news globally. As audiences continue to migrate toward ...

About 60% of U.S. adults say they read AI summaries at the top of search engine results, while about 30% say they don’t, and 10% are unsure. When a Google AI Overview accompanies search results, ...

A Europe-based company has built a tiny and fully private AI chatbot known as CrankGPT. Unlike conventional AI chatbots, CrankGPT is powered entirely by a hand crank. The company is currently ...