League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

While League of Legends has let you communicate over voice with folks you're partied up with for a while, being able to yell at strangers is an entirely new ballgame for the MOBA and… oh god, let me ...

Is Claude AI down? Anthropic's chatbot and website facing issues, report thousands of users

Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Claude appeared to run into issues Tuesday evening, with outage reports on ...
Medical Xpress

Psychiatrists hope chat logs can reveal the secrets of AI psychosis

"You're not crazy," the chatbot reassured the young woman. "You're at the edge of something." She was no stranger to artificial intelligence, having worked on large language models—the kinds of ...
Medical Xpress

Chat-based crisis response planning shows promise for preventing teen suicide

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents, yet many teens do not receive timely mental health care. A major reason is that young people often avoid in-person mental health ...
PC World

Buy in chat: Google adds ‘Checkout’ to Gemini and Search’s AI Mode

Google introduces a new ‘Checkout’ feature in Gemini and Search AI Mode, allowing US users to make direct purchases through conversations with AI. PCWorld reports that Google launched the Universal ...
Newsweek

Roblox Update: New Checks Required To Access Chat

The popular online gaming platform Roblox is rolling out global age verification checks to access its chat feature after a soft launch in select regions late last year. The company told Newsweek, ...
MediaPost

Roblox Enforces Global Age Checks For Chat Access

After testing proprietary facial-recognition technology in December, Roblox has announced that it is rolling out new mandatory age-verification measures to users across the globe. The social gaming ...
Engadget

Roblox now requires age verification to use in-game chat

Roblox Corporation, the company behind the popular online game platform Roblox, announced today that age verification will now be required for any users wishing to use in-game chat in all regions ...
Android

Google Chat Gets a New Web Address That Loads Fast

Google Chat gets a new web address that is claimed to load faster and offer a more seamless experience. This does not change the Chat user interface, and bookmarks and links to the old URL will still ...
Android

Google Chat Finally Gains Message Scheduling

Google Chat finally gets the ability to schedule messages up to 120 days in advance. There’s a new Draft shortcut, which opens a dedicated area to manage all scheduled messages. The scheduling feature ...
Android Police

Google Chat finally gains message scheduling

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...