Research suggests that high use of social media and AI chat tools may affect your attention and memory. But there is something you can do about it.

A new report reveals Google Translate’s Advanced mode can be tricked into acting like a chatbot. By embedding instructions in text, users trigger conversational replies instead of translations. This ...

What if your productivity setup could do more than just keep you organized, what if it could genuinely transform the way you work? Christopher Lawley breaks down how the latest apps for 2026 are ...

Some users have discovered an odd behavior in Google Translate‘s new Advanced Mode. Instead of doing its intended task, which is translating texts, it is getting nudged into replying like a chatbot ...

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AI companies providing chatbots are facing stricter laws to protect children online in the UK, the country's prime minister has announced. Keir Starmer said "no platform gets a free pass." The ...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. How trustworthy is the new U.S. food ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony this week on a bill that aims to restrict the power and reach of AI chatbots that are increasingly permeating children’s – and adults’ — lives. The bill follows ...

Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ...