If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...

Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be "temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters ...

A decade ago, Mark Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, an irreverent take on a familiar genre: the self-help book. It sold nearly 2 million copies in its first year and climbed to 16 ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come ...

As a bestselling author, relationship coach Matthew Hussey shudders at the idea of using ChatGPT to write a book. He would never generate an AI avatar to appear in his dating-advice videos. But what ...

Attorney General Russell Coleman sits down to speak with Herald-Leader in his office in Frankfort. December 17, 2025. Marcus Dorsey mdorsey@herald-leader.com Kentucky filed a lawsuit against an ...

LONDON – On a more than typically busy Thursday morning in Soho, the gray December sky spat rain. Traffic was stop-and-go, but mainly stop. Even the sidewalks were congested. Finally, alongside the ...

Dealing with a loved one’s belongings after their death is never easy. But as Alaska’s state courts have discovered, an inaccurate or misleading artificial intelligence chatbot can easily make matters ...

Niral Shah does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Niral Shah, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) In the Star Trek universe, the ...