AI Companions and the Law

Concerns about AI chatbots delivering harmful, even profoundly dangerous advice or instructions to users is growing. There is deep concern over the effects of these interactions on children, and a growing number of stories—and lawsuits—about when things go wrong, particularly for teens. In this conversation, Justin Hendrix is joined by three legal experts who are thinking deeply about how to address questions related to chatbots, and about the need for substantially more research on human-AI interaction: Clare Huntington, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School;Meetali Jain, founder and director of the Tech Justice Law Project; and Robert Mahari,...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant

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Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT

Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…

GitHub – MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1: MiniMax-M1, the world’s first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.

MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. - MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1

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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

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Building Effective AI Agents

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