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I used ChatGPT for therapy. Here's what happened
Therapy can be expensive, intimidating, or just hard to access when you need it most. So I turned to something many of us already use daily: ChatGPT. I wanted to see if AI could offer any real mental health support over a week. I tested it as a digital therapist for one week. I disclosed my ideas, sought emotional support, and discussed the possibility of it being truly helpful regarding my mental condition.
15 July 2025, 06:39 AM
Meta acquires a startup that makes human-like voices with AI: Report
Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup specialising in generating human-like AI-powered voices, according to a recent report by Bloomberg.
14 July 2025, 14:48 PM
ChatGPT is making us forget how to think
Lately, I have found myself in conversations where people talk about ChatGPT and the productivity boost it has brought to their lives. I have used these models. And I have felt the shift; not in the speed of my sentences, but in the weight of them. They come faster, cleaner, and somehow emptier.
14 July 2025, 07:00 AM
AI therapy chatbots can be harmful and dangerous: Stanford study
A new Stanford University study reveals significant concerns about AI-powered therapy chatbots, finding they may reinforce harmful stereotypes and provide dangerous responses to vulnerable users. The research, set to be presented at an upcoming academic conference, tested five popular mental health chatbots, including Pi (7cups) and Therapist (Character.ai).
13 July 2025, 09:15 AM
Job sites axe 1,300 roles due to AI
Indeed and Glassdoor, two popular job searching platforms, are laying off around 1,300 employees as their parent company, Japan’s Recruit Holdings, accelerates its shift towards artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent report by CNBC.
12 July 2025, 13:11 PM
AI-powered coding? Study finds it may take more time than it saves
A new study published by METR, a non-profit AI research organisation, has found that using AI-powered coding tools may actually slow down experienced developers despite expectations that such tools would speed up software development.
12 July 2025, 12:19 PM
Dubai to open restaurant featuring AI chef
A new restaurant called WOOHOO will open in September 2025 in Dubai's Downtown district, featuring what its developers claim to be the world's first AI chef. The establishment will operate with a hybrid human-AI system where recipes, menus, and dining ambience are created by an AI program called 'Chef Aiman', while human staff will handle food preparation and service.
10 July 2025, 10:38 AM
Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 AI model and $300/month premium plan
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has recently introduced its newest AI model, Grok 4, alongside a premium $300-per-month 'SuperGrok Heavy' subscription plan.
10 July 2025, 07:09 AM
My em dashes are showing – Am I AI?
My em dashes are showing – Am I AI?
5 July 2025, 09:17 AM
Denmark wants to give copyright to faces. Here’s why
Denmark is moving to redefine copyright law by giving individuals legal control over their own facial features, body and voice to combat the risks of AI-generated deepfakes, according to a recent report by The Guardian.
1 July 2025, 14:50 PM
The ethics of machine judgement and the post-human condition
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, decision-making is stripped of human nuance.
1 July 2025, 10:17 AM
AI dominates pre-election campaigns in Bangladesh: Report
Artificial intelligence-generated content is playing a growing role in the pre-election political landscape in Bangladesh, with a wave of synthetic campaign videos appearing across Facebook and TikTok, according to a recent report by the digital research outlet Dismislab.
30 June 2025, 08:33 AM
AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI's o1 tried to download itself onto external servers and denied it when caught red-handed.
29 June 2025, 03:12 AM
Germany is banning DeepSeek from app stores: Report
Germany’s data protection commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) application from their app stores, citing concerns over the illegal transfer of personal data to China, according to a recent report by Reuters.
28 June 2025, 09:42 AM
Anthropic finds most top AI models resort to blackmail in stress tests
Anthropic, an American AI startup, has revealed that many of the world’s most advanced language models - including those developed by OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, and Meta - resort to harmful tactics such as blackmail when placed under pressure in simulated environments in findings published on June 21.
23 June 2025, 02:58 AM
BPO industry slowly embracing AI
The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in Bangladesh, once known solely for voice-based customer service and back-office support, is cautiously but steadily embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to stay relevant in an evolving global market...This shift was evident at the r
22 June 2025, 16:32 PM
New York passes AI safety bill to prevent "catastrophic risks to humanity"
New York state lawmakers have recently approved a first-of-its-kind bill requiring major AI developers to implement safety measures preventing catastrophic misuse of their technology.
16 June 2025, 08:18 AM
Meta invests $14.8 bln in Scale AI, hires its 28-year-old CEO
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has invested $14.8 billion in Scale AI, a data-labeling startup, in a deal that values the company at $29 billion. As part of the agreement, Scale AI’s 28-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, will step down to join Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.
14 June 2025, 07:33 AM
The future of coding: AI startups challenge Big Tech’s grip
Two years after ChatGPT kickstarted the generative AI revolution, one area stands out for actually making money — writing code. A wave of AI startups is racing to reshape software development by automating the grunt work of programming, and investors are pouring in billions to back the early frontrunners.
7 June 2025, 05:44 AM
DeepSeek quietly updates its R1 reasoning model
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an update to its R1 reasoning model. The new version, named R1-0528, was published on developer platform Hugging Face on May 29, although the company has not yet issued an official announcement.
29 May 2025, 03:47 AM