Artificial Intelligence

ALMATY, July 15 — The global market for digital companionship, now a multi-billion-dollar sector, began with a 1966 experiment. That year, MIT…

WASHINGTON, July 15 — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law held a hearing on September 13, 2023,…

WASHINGTON, July 15 — A growing number of teens are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for romance. A 2024 survey by the…

CHICAGO, July 15 — The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging pediatricians to start screening children for artificial intelligence use during routine…

SAN FRANCISCO — A survey from Common Sense Media, the nonprofit founded in 2003 by James Steyer, offers a window into how…

WASHINGTON, July 15 — A quiet but significant shift is underway in how adolescent boys form relationships, with a growing number of…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 15, 2026 — The classroom feels different this year. Teachers in California and Texas describe boys as young as…

CAMBRIDGE — Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spent decades examining how people form emotional bonds with…

WASHINGTON, July 15 — The Federal Trade Commission is moving to close a regulatory gap that has left minors exposed to increasingly…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 — The scene inside the AI companion app market is one of explosive growth and mounting unease. By…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — A new report from the Congressional Budget Office has laid out what a one-time wealth tax on the…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 — The figure that matters in the AI wealth debate is Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI since 2019,…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 — Elon Musk turned 54 on June 28, and the South African-born entrepreneur shows no signs of slowing…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — Two proposals, following the April 1, 2025 release of a Pew poll, are now working their way through…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 14 — Sundar Pichai has spent two decades inside Google, rising from a product manager on the Chrome…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — The figure that matters: 0.42%. That is the wage reduction, per robot per 1,000 workers, that MIT economist…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — By the numbers, the debate over AI regulation in the United States is now anchored by a hard…

SANTA CLARA, July 14 — Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, has built a company that now sits at…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — Global spending on artificial intelligence reached $154 billion in 2023, up from $50 billion in 2020, according to…

BEIJING, July 14 — For a generation of computer scientists, the name Fei-Fei Li is synonymous with the visual awakening of artificial…

WASHINGTON, July 14 — On the floor of the Senate this afternoon, the air is thick with the familiar tension of a…