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, ...

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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