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AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

By Frank Landymore

Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.

Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

People from the ages of 18 to 39 have suffered an increase in cognitive issues in the span of more than a decade.

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Now Reporting Serious Cognitive Issues

By Sharon Adarlo

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.

NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His “Friend” ChatGPT

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

By Victor Tangermann

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

By Victor Tangermann

A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.

In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

RFK Jr. said there was a possible connection between video games and a rise in gun violence without providing evidence.

RFK Junior Says Mass Shootings Are Being Caused by Video Games

By Frank Landymore

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

By Frank Landymore