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These tips from experts can help your teenager navigate AI companions

These tips from experts can help your teenager navigate AI companions

As artificial intelligence technology becomes part of daily life, adolescents are turning to chatbots for advice, guidance and conversation. The appeal is clear: Chatbots are patient, never judgmental, supportive and always available.
Teens say they are turning to AI for friendship

Teens say they are turning to AI for friendship

No question is too small when Kayla Chege, a high school student in Kansas, is using artificial intelligence .
From tech podcasts to policy: Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

From tech podcasts to policy: Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping new plan for America’s “global dominance” in artificial intelligence, proposing to cut back environmental regulations to speed up the construction of AI supercomputers while pr
Thrill of the carnival ride comes down to physics: Calgary professor

Thrill of the carnival ride comes down to physics: Calgary professor

EDMONTON — Gregg Korek knows a thing or two about roller-coasters.

Ukrainian security services arrest suspected administrator of Russian-language cybercrime platform

PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian security services backed by French police have arrested the suspected administrator of a Russian-language cybercrime platform that served as a marketplace for stolen data, hacking tools and illicit services, law enforcement aut
Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake

Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake.
Science and local sleuthing identify a 250-year-old shipwreck on a Scottish island

Science and local sleuthing identify a 250-year-old shipwreck on a Scottish island

LONDON (AP) — When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians to uncover its story.
Canadian researchers create tool to remove anti-deepfake watermarks from AI content

Canadian researchers create tool to remove anti-deepfake watermarks from AI content

OTTAWA — University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.
Raccoon whose sidewalk death went viral in 2015 immortalized in Toronto's history

Raccoon whose sidewalk death went viral in 2015 immortalized in Toronto's history

TORONTO — Ten years ago, a dead raccoon on a downtown Toronto street sparked an impromptu sidewalk shrine as passersby laid flowers, candles and cigarettes around the critter.
OpenAI's Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking

OpenAI's Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking

WASHINGTON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person's voice to bypass security checks and move money.