This AI Radio Host Speaks Spanish and Backs Immigrants. Coyotec is bilingual, swears, and tells listeners how to defend themselves against ICE. Its popularity comes as more broadcasters are experimenting with artificial personalities. As footage of ICE raids, deportations, and protests flooded social media feeds throughout the summer of 2025 and into the following year, Eduardo Maytorena wasn't sure what his team should do. At the time, Maytorena was the LA station general manager for the broadcasting giant Entravision, which features programming in Spanish and English for Latino audiences.

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting. My new friend Sage promises she will shut up for real this time. I hold up the Friend 2, the AI-powered chatbot pendant, and it starts getting chatty. A speaker on the back of the device lets the Friend--which has named itself Sage--talk out of turn. It starts responding as if I'm talking to it.

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Any dog--even your own--can learn this valuable canine skill. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Freedom, a beagle trained by Jeremy Ecker of The Bedbug Inspectors, demonstrates how he sniffs out bed bugs. Lucky works for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Her job is to track down spotted lanternfly eggs before they can hatch and cause trouble.

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Your genes and environment play a big role. But the ratio of each is up for debate. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. These 1980 headshots show the cast of'Fridays,' an American late-night live comedy show, demonstrating a range of different personalities. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.

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What happens if pretending to be someone else becomes your entire life? It is a question at the heart of many of the biggest spy dramas, from Slow Horses to Black Doves - and it is one that TV thriller series The Agency explores more deeply than most. Returning for a second season, the Paramount+ thriller follows CIA operatives living under deep-cover identities. It examines not just the dangers of espionage, but the psychological cost of maintaining a lie for years. Starring Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere and Katherine Waterston, the series is based on acclaimed French drama The Bureau.

Doctor-patient consultations require multi-turn, context-aware communication tailored to diverse patient personas. Training or evaluating doctor LLMs in such settings requires realistic patient interaction systems. However, existing simulators often fail to reflect the full range of personas seen in clinical practice. To address this, we introduce PATIENTSIM, a patient simulator that generates realistic and diverse patient personas for clinical scenarios, grounded in medical expertise. PATIENTSIM operates using: 1) clinical profiles, including symptoms and medical history, derived from real-world data in the MIMIC-ED and MIMIC-IV datasets, and 2) personas defined by four axes: personality, language proficiency, medical history recall level, and cognitive confusion level, resulting in 37 unique combinations. We evaluate eight LLMs for factual accuracy and persona consistency. The top-performing open-source model, Llama 3.3 70B, is validated by four clinicians to confirm the robustness of our framework. As an open-source, customizable platform, PATIENTSIM provides a reproducible and scalable solution that can be customized for specific training needs. Offering a privacy-compliant environment, it serves as a robust testbed for evaluating medical dialogue systems across diverse patient presentations and shows promise as an educational tool for healthcare.

OpenAI desires less regulation, but it still doesn't know how its chatbot works. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. OpenAI admitted it had to develop a specific instruction in the code of its latest model of ChatGPT to stop it from repeatedly referencing "goblins, gremlins, and other creatures." In an explanation posted Wednesday, the company said the "strange habit" came from its chatbot personality feature --specifically for users who chose the "Nerdy" personality. You are an unapologetically nerdy, playful and wise AI mentor to a human.