A Gallup poll from May found 71% of U.S. adults oppose building an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed, higher than the 53% who oppose a local nuclear plant, and a CBS N…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, amplifying real U.S. anger over the infra…
Claude is preferred by 10.6% of Gen Z adults who use AI, compared to 1.4% of Baby Boomers+, a 7.6-to-1 gap that YouGov's newest ranking identifies as the steepest generational split of any major AI br…
Only 15% of Americans trust AI companies to make decisions about the technology's development and use, according to an Anthropic + YouGov poll from Dec. 2025, and Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp i…
A 2026 Pew survey found 52% of US adults are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and 55% of adults under 30 said the same in June 2026, the first majority in that age group. Exp…
XAI's Grok chatbot began generating gibberish responses to user queries this week, with complaints first surfacing on Grok Lite Wednesday morning, according to TechCrunch. Users reported replies such …
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 2026 YouGov survey found that 66% of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of working with an AI therapist, but adults under 30 are nearly twice as likely to feel comfortable, suggesting generat…
A UK GP, Dr. Kaye, reports that two of her patients received dangerous medical advice from AI chatbots, which failed to identify symptoms of cervical and ovarian cancer, delaying diagnosis and putting…
YouGov found that Claude and OpenAI were among the fastest-rising brands in consideration among U.S. Gen Z adults in Q2 2026, with Claude's score rising from 14.2% to 28.1% and OpenAI's from 10.1% to …
YouGov's BrandIndex ranking shows Claude's Consideration score among U.S. Gen Z adults nearly doubled from 14.2% to 28.1% in Q2 2026, the highest of any brand, while OpenAI's rose from 10.1% to 22.1%,…
A new essay argues that the AI race is not a prisoner's dilemma, challenging the common 'arms race' framing used by figures like Leopold Aschenbrenner and Hunter Ash. The author, a philosophy teacher,…
A study by researchers using a YouGov survey of 3,011 U.K. adults found that large language models' alignment with human emotional perception of news framing varies by model, with GPT-5.2 showing the …
A YouGov survey commissioned by Mashable found that most U.S. adults have used an AI chatbot like Claude or ChatGPT. Mashable interviewed three users — a grandmother, an entrepreneur, and a technologi…
A YouGov survey commissioned by Mashable found that 37% of Gen Z AI chatbot users interact with the technology once or more per day, with roughly a quarter consulting chatbots multiple times daily. Ge…
A survey by Indeed and YouGov published July 28 found that 43% of 1,301 U.S. managers felt poorly equipped to lead AI-native workers, while 45% felt ready, and 52% of workers lacked needed AI training…
One in five US adults under 30 use AI chatbots for emotional support, and 13% of all adults have shared a secret with a chatbot they haven't told a human, according to surveys from Pew Research Center…
A working paper from the Electric Power Research Institute found that between 2015 and 2024, each doubling of data center capacity reduced average U.S. retail electricity prices by 3.5%, contradicting…
Password manager 1Password launched 1Password for Claude, a tool that lets Anthropic's AI chatbot complete browser tasks requiring logins and one-time passcodes without exposing credentials to the AI …
Only 28% of U.S. online searchers trust information from an AI assistant, compared to 70% who trust a search engine, according to a YouGov survey of 19 markets presented on July 8. The U.S. has the lo…