Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights. By Amanda Holpuch The federal Environmental Protection Agency ...

A medication that has been prescribed in the U.S. for decades may be able to stop the earliest steps of Alzheimer’s disease— but only if it is taken long before symptoms appear, according to new ...

"AI is here to stay,” according to conventional wisdom. From news headlines to academic papers, Americans are led to believe that the rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable, and that we all ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Source: Caroline Leavitt As a writer, I depend on my agent and my editors to help me polish my prose. But before my work’s ready enough to give to them, I first count on writer friends. I have three ...

It’s the question on everyone’s minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble? It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are we in, and when will each one burst? The debate over whether ...

As AI tools have proliferated in workplaces and pressure to use them has mounted, employees have had to contend with the scourge of workslop, or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly ...

When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with family and friends, even though she knew her cancer journey might not be over. As many as one-third of ...

In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition: “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by ...

The attorney for the woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case who recently escaped a Wisconsin group home is asking a judge to return his client to a mental health facility, instead of ...

A young woman convicted of a Slender Man-inspired stabbing in 2014 was found sleeping rough with a 42-year-old after going missing from her group home 150 miles away. Police body cam footage shows ...