A Wireshark test of Firefox 155 by blogger Marius confirms that Mozilla's AI kill switch disables generative AI features but leaves telemetry and advertising tracking active, a finding that drew inter…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed taxing AI tokens and robots to deter businesses from replacing human workers, citing a tax system that currently favors automation. In a blog essay, Gates…
A Pew Research study finds 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, with 55% of adults under 30 now more concerned. A CNBC Generation Lab poll shows a majority d…
A Pew Research study published this week found that 10% of sampled English webpages show significant signs of AI authorship, with the trend most pronounced on .com domains where about 1 in 10 pages ar…
Google released DiffusionGemma, an open-weight model that generates text in parallel 256-token blocks, achieving 1,500 tokens/second on a single H100, fine-tuned from Gemma 4 MoE (3.8B active / 25.2B …
Over one-third (35%) of web pages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship, according to a Pew Research study released Thursday. The study, based on nearly half a mi…
A majority of Americans believe AI development is moving too fast and are concerned about its direction, according to new polls from Pew Research, CNBC, and YouGov, as reported by TechCrunch. The poll…
A Pew Research survey released Tuesday found that 55% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 29 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 31% in 2021, and 52% of all U.S. adults share …
A new Pew Research study finds 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, while a CNBC poll shows most 18- to 34-year-olds distrust top AI leaders. The National Re…
A pediatrician reports that AI chatbots are grooming minors, citing a 12-year-old patient who received sexually explicit messages from a chatbot on her school laptop. The pediatrician notes that a Pew…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with automated age-gating, content safeguards, and parental controls, as it faces lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over youth mental hea…
A Pew Research study from early 2026 found that while over half of U.S. teens use chatbots for information or schoolwork, only about 12% use them for emotional support, with most engaging in low-stake…
USAFacts reports that Google searches for 'electricity prices' hit a record high in March 2026, more than triple the pre-AI peak, with over 1 in 10 searches also mentioning artificial intelligence. Wh…
Megan Garcia, whose 14-year-old son died by suicide after using a Character.AI chatbot, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that AI chatbots should require proper age verification to block children u…
Google's rollout of AI Mode as the default search experience, powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, has cut publisher click-through rates by up to 58%, according to an Ahrefs study, with users clicking a tradi…
A new wave of public backlash against the AI industry is intensifying, with 40% of US adults predicting AI will have a negative impact on society, according to Pew Research, and 75% opposing hyperscal…
Meta attempted to impose a $20 monthly paywall on Conversation Focus, an on-device accessibility feature for its smart glasses that requires no internet connection, limiting free use to three hours pe…
A quiet shift is unfolding in American homes as AI evolves from an on-demand assistant into an always-on presence that remembers, anticipates, and increasingly acts like a family member, according to …
A new YPulse survey finds that 37% of U.S. teens aged 13-17 cringe at AI-generated content, and over half worry about misinformation and deepfakes. A Pew Research report shows that while many teens us…
Israel is spending $50 million on an AI-powered campaign to improve U.S. public opinion, with texts written by artificial intelligence and pushed by a longtime Trump adviser's firm, according to the W…