Media coverage of AI companions taps into two primary fears. One is that young people will replace human friendships with AI.

Americans feel gloomy about artificial intelligence, and everyone connected to the industry knows it. “AI is not very popular in the U.S. right now,” Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who runs ChatGPT, ...

The White House on Tuesday slammed the notion that the U.S. would use a nuclear weapon in Iran after President Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” ahead of an 8 p.m. deadline ...

The 25th Amendment talk is back. Lawmakers have repeatedly floated the method for removing a president, as laid out in the Constitution, in recent years. And Donald Trump’s Cabinet apparently ...

Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out ...

Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help prepare their tax returns, but experts warn the technology can deliver outdated or inaccurate ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

What starts as a fake refund scam turns into a full-blown counterattack. In this video, the team hacks into a scam operation, reverses the connection, and sabotages the scammers’ computers with a ...

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