After 12 years as a tech columnist, I'm helping launch the new Youth AI Safety Institute to test the AI products shaping childhood.

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Making ChatGPT’s bias visible — and personal — is powerful.

And why ‘We the users’ matters more than ever

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I gave the new ChatGPT Health access to 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements. It drew questionable conclusions that changed each time I asked.

New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches. Some of the AI analysis was impressive — and some was downright dumb...

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Jony Ive, a famed former Apple designer, said he will work at OpenAI on new products that make it easier to use AI tools like ChatGPT.

Building a family of AI products for everyone.

Google announced a confusing array of new ways to use its AI to find information at its annual I/O event. Here’s a guide.

Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

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A California man has been arrested for abducting a 10-year-old child he reportedly met on social media apps Roblox and Discord, authorities said Wednesday.

Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted on Friday.

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

Some alternatives to Teslas. A law in Utah makes app stores rather than companies responsible for age verification. 23andMe files for bankruptcy. And OpenAI is following in

The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”

Three super-practical suggestions to put boundaries around your screen time.

There’s an urgent role for automation and AI in government — but the what DOGE appears to be doing doesn’t add up.

There’s an urgent role for automation and AI in government — but the what DOGE appears to be doing doesn’t add up.

Using AI to identify “mission-critical” jobs? Spotting dead people on the Social Security rolls? There’s an urgent role for automation and AI in government -- but the what DOGE appears to be doing doe...

Amazon’s effort to play catch up with ChatGPT is still very much a work in progress — and that includes proving we can trust it.