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As recently as June, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was one of several lawmakers who resisted using AI, owing to a skepticism of the technology’s ability to deliver accurate information.But now?”Yeah, that’s changed,” the Massachusetts Democrat said with a laugh this month, explaining that she now finds ChatGPT to be “really valuable” for basic research questions, even if she still catches the occasional hallucination.Warren said that she began using ChatGPT more after seeing her daughter use it. She says she doesn’t “rely” on the technology, but uses it to “start to approach a problem.””Like, I’m in the middle of reading something, and…

YouTuber MrBeast is a social-media superstar, with hundreds of millions of subscribers and a business valued at around $5 billion.He also may be one of the last creators to amass such a large fan base, according to his former talent manager Reed Duchscher.As social-media algorithms get better at tailoring content to individual user interests, the opportunity for stars like MrBeast, Charli D’Amelio, or Khaby Lame to show up across feeds becomes much harder, Duchscher said.”If you like travel content, if you like automotive content, if you like health and beauty content, your algorithms kind of stay in that vertical,” he…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alby Churven, the 14-year-old founder of Clovr, who lives in Wollongong, Australia. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I was younger, I started an e-commerce grip socks brand called Alpha Grips. It failed, but that’s what got me interested in business. I was 12.A lot of kids’ first businesses is always something to do with e-commerce, like drop-shipping or clothing brands. Social media does saturate you with that “get rich quick” idea with drop-shipping or crypto. Although 90% of the time it’s a scam, it still ignites an interest.Then I…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s protesting university students on Sunday collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election that they hope would oust the autocratic government of President Aleksandar Vucic from office.Braving freezing weather, the students set up nearly 500 stands in dozens of cities, towns and villages in the Balkan country for residents to sign the election demand, which isn’t a formal petition. Students have said that Sunday’s action was meant to put further pressure on Vucic and as a test of support. Young protesters have been at the forefront of a nationwide movement…

Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for “all natural” granola that comes packed with extra protein. Same goes for low-fat yogurts “made with real fruit,” “organic” plant-based milks and bottled “superfood” smoothies.Buyer beware: Healthy grocery buzzwords like those often cover up an unhealthy amount of sugar.Added sugars are difficult to quickly spot because many companies use clever marketing to distract consumers, said Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical School and Princeton University who has studied added sugars.Avena said while some health-forward brands know people are…

India’s startup ecosystem raised nearly $11 billion in 2025, but investors wrote far fewer checks and grew more selective about where they took risk, underscoring how the world’s third most-funded startup market is diverging from the AI-fueled capital concentration seen in the U.S. The selective approach was most evident in deal-making. The number of startup funding rounds fell by nearly 39% from a year earlier, to 1,518 deals, according to Tracxn. Total funding slipped more modestly — down just over 17% to $10.5 billion. That pullback was not uniform. Seed-stage funding fell sharply to $1.1 billion in 2025, down 30%…

Flu is surging across the United States amid a busy holiday travel time.The state of New York is among those most heavily hit. For the week ending Dec. 20, the state of New York reported its highest number of positive flu cases (71,123) ever recorded in a single week, according to the New York State Department of Health. That represented an increase of 38% over the previous week, the department said.New York is one of 14 states that have reported high or very high activity of outpatient visits to healthcare providers for influenza-like illnesses, for the week ending Dec. 13,…

Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework last fall.Their exchanges grew more consuming as the 16-year-old opened up to the chatbot about his suicidal thoughts, according to data analysis of the conversations shared with The Washington Post by attorneys for Adam’s parents.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. In January, the high school sophomore spent just under an hour on average each day with ChatGPT. By March, he averaged five hours with the chatbot daily, in conversations during which ChatGPT used words…

The Make America Healthy Again movement has generated a lot of discussion about public health. But the language MAHA proponents use to describe health and disease has also raised concerns among the disability and chronic illness communities.I’m a researcher studying the rhetoric of health and medicine – and, specifically, the rhetoric of risk. This means I analyze the language used by public officials, institutions, health care providers and other groups in discussing health risks to decode the underlying beliefs and assumptions that can affect both policy and public sentiment about health issues.As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of…

2025 was unquestionably the year of AI.Big Tech shelled out roughly $400 billion on capex, a spending spree so extensive that some economists believe it staved off an overall recession. Nvidia became the first $4 trillion company. And AI content became inescapable, seeping into everything from Hollywood to campaign ads — even Mickey Mouse is getting into AI.It hasn’t been an endless party. Seemingly every few weeks, the stock market gets spooked that music is about to stop. Only Universal’s Wicked for Good was more focused on a bubble.Here’s a look back at the biggest AI storylines of 2025.Wall Street’s…