A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can walk away at any time. What if that pitch ...

Update (3/27/26): This piece has been updated with additional examples. Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 ...

Here’s a familiar pitch: Augmenting human intelligence with AI—and AI intelligence with humans—will allow companies to supercharge productivity while maintaining standards. While LLMs may make ...

Manipulation can sneak into our lives like an uninvited guest, often unnoticed until it's too late. For women over 40, who have navigated some complex relationships, the stakes can feel higher than ...

This photo from the early 1900s depicts a man carrying a giant head in a wheelbarrow. Rijksmuseum A man carries a giant head in a wheelbarrow. Massive geese roam a park. Adolf Hitler puts on a Karl ...

When it comes to outfitting your home with WiFi, there’s typically a broad line between what’s acceptable and what’s usable. You could use a single router in a somewhat sprawling home, and it wouldn’t ...

Three SpaceX Corp. alumni who helped the rocket company develop optical communications for its Starlink satellite Wi-Fi service have raised millions of dollars to commercialize that technology for ...

When you ask ChatGPT and other AIs to recommend a product or service, odds are the top answers were put there by humans. This doesn’t mean artificial intelligence is lying to you. That first answer is ...

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Members of a U.S. House committee criticized Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith's leadership and accused her of directing commanders to manipulate crime data. In an interim report, the ...

When my late lab partner Xu Liu and I first illuminated the brain cells that stored a particular memory, it felt like watching a thought flicker back to life. We stimulated a constellation of neurons ...