This startup will pay you $800 daily to work as an AI bully

Memvid’s ‘AI Bully’ job turns your everyday chatbot frustration into paid work, where you stress test AI by pushing chatbots until they fail, exposing how often they forget context and repeat mistakes.
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Amazon is bringing new chat styles to Alexa+ and one of them can be cuss, too

Alexa+ is getting customizable chat styles that change how the assistant talks to you, including a new Sassy personality with humor, sarcasm and censored profanity.
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Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a fee

Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per “non-template message,” depending on the country.

After ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta AI wants to go shopping for you

Meta AI may soon help you shop online. The company is testing a product discovery feature that suggests items with images, prices and merchant links, placing it in direct competition with ChatGPT and Gemini.
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Chatbots rated more empathetic than humans in controlled tests

New research suggests AI chatbots can generate responses people rate as more empathetic than humans, raising questions about emotional intelligence in machines.
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The AI Race is so hot that chatbot users are getting paid in real cash, iPhones, and TVs

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu are handing out billions in cash and prizes to attract chatbot users, highlighting how fierce China’s AI race has become in 2026.
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Yahoo Scout is an AI ‘answer engine’ that wants to challenge Perplexity and Google’s AI mode

With Scout, Yahoo is entering the AI search race by betting that users still want visible sources, challenging rivals like Google and Perplexity that increasingly keep links in the background.
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AI chatbot hype is real, but daily use at work remains limited

AI tools are spreading across offices, but an employee survey suggests they are far from becoming a daily work habit, even as companies and tech leaders continue to push AI adoption.
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After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban

WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users in Brazil, days after the country’s competition agency ordered the company to suspend its new policy that bars third-party, general-purpose chatbots from the app.

California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kids’ toys

“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.