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A new Pew Research Center survey looks at how teens use and view AI, from its impact in school to its impact in their ...

A new Pew Research Center survey finds most US teens use AI chatbots for schoolwork, fun, and advice, while holding mixed ...

There’s a wide gap between parents’ estimates of their teenagers’ AI chatbot activities and actual usage, according to new ...

An AI powerful enough to analyze DNA, file taxes, and grow tomato plants is being redesigned for everyday work, pointing ...

As more and more people divulge their innermost secrets to AI companions, platforms face the wrenching dilemma of determining when those admissions might signal a deadly threat to the public. Several ...

Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these tools. Teens tend to view AI's future impact on their lives ...

The new AI platform, announced on Wednesday, “reasons, delegates, searches, builds, remembers, codes, and delivers,” unifying “every current AI capability” into what Perplexity calls a ...

Apple is opening its CarPlay platform to third-party AI chatbots through a new app category arriving with iOS 26.4, ...

In A Nutshell Researchers searching over 10.7 million psychiatric patient records in Denmark found 38 cases where AI chatbot ...

RIT and Georgia Tech artificial intelligence experts have developed a framework to test hallucinations on ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, and DeepSeek.