The judge overseeing the social media addiction case in California told the jury to continue to use the platforms at the center of the trial that began in Los Angeles on Monday. The trial is expected ...

To make autonomous driving safer and more reliable, Waymo (GOOG) (GOOGL) is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic digital worlds to help its autonomous vehicles handle hard-to-predict ...

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo said it is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic, digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios. The self-driving tech ...

Google's AI world-building tech Project Genie, rolled out to US users only, enables the creation of 60-second virtual worlds. Shares in Take-Two, Roblox and Unity fell on the news of the announcement.

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...

It’s what I had the most fun using Google’s Project Genie for, at least right now. It’s what I had the most fun using Google’s Project Genie for, at least right now. is a senior reporter covering ...

An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.

In two recent polls, a majority of U.S. adults said they use social media to get health information. July 2025 by KFF, a leading health policy research nonprofit: 55% said they use social media “to ...

There appears to be a "Goldilocks zone" when it comes to social media use among teenagers. Too much social media use can negatively affect a teenager's well-being, a new study finds, dovetailing with ...

"I feel overwhelmed, scared, and unsure of what steps to take next," the woman wrote on Reddit Nicki Cox joined the PEOPLE team in 2025 as a Staff Editor, Society and Culture. Her work previously ...

YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children's social media use, as the harms of being online for young people have become more evident.