Google DeepMind's CEO says AI could repeat the toxic pitfalls of social media — will it make the same click-chasing mistakes?

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warns that AI could repeat social media’s toxic patterns of addiction, division, and manipulation. Read More

How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ... Read More

Scientists built new social media platform with only AI users – and things quickly turned worse

Scientists simulated a new social media platform populated entirely by artificial intelligence chatbot users and found that it led to “worsened outcomes” with amplification of polarised voices. Social ... Read More

Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the ... Read More

Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

Facebook is displayed on a smartphone, with a person's hand tapping to like a post. © Wachiwit (Shutterstock) Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the ... Read More

The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

There’s a quiet revolution in how millions of Americans decide what’s real. Trust is slipping away from traditional institutions—media, government, and higher education—and shifting to individual ... Read More

AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

First came the AI chatbots, then the AI image generators. Now, tech companies are rushing to release AI video generators. Read More