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Is social media safe enough for children? Today, parents must primarily rely on claims that social media companies make about their products to answer that question. But how accurate are these claims? To answer that question, we undertook a methodical independent analysis of features claimed to be provided by: Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. We found that most features do not live up to the promises that companies make about the safety they provide. Of the 86 features that we tested, 51 failed, or ~60%.

Recent years have seen rapid, and in some areas accelerating, progress in a range of AI capabilities. These gains have unlocked useful applications across science, health, agriculture, accessibility, knowledge work and information technology, including in the development of AI itself. AI adoption has accelerated broadly, and unevenly, across countries and sectors. While the shift towards AI agents is under way, their future adoption and economic impacts will likely be shaped by continued improvements in their ability to accomplish knowledge work with little or no human oversight. AI develop

After garnering broad bipartisan support, House lawmakers fast-tracked a package of kids' online safety measures, including a version of the Kids Online Safety Act, and sent it to the Senate. The bill passed in a 267-117 vote. The House version of KOSA does not include "duty of care" language—which would require platforms to take reasonable steps to mitigate harms stemming from design features like endless scroll or algorithmic recommendations.

Republican and Democratic candidates and strategists who were once wary of A.I. tools or overwhelmed by them are now rushing to give their campaigns an A.I. upgrade. Those who do so could reap the rewards in the midterm elections in November and, ultimately, in the 2028 presidential campaign. Those who don’t could fall far behind.

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites—for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming woven into the everyday lives of American kids. For advocates in the youth education space, there aren't enough safeguards for the AI platforms kids are using. The 2026 Common Sense Media Census: AI Teens and Tweens is the first in a series of studies intended to track young people’s experiences with AI over time.

AI is consuming more and more AI-written content to formulate its answers—a feedback loop that could make its answers narrower, blander, and easier to manipulate. I

A barrage of seemingly unrelated headlines suggest that Hollywood and Big Tech are on a collision course and that the next few years will reshape how the world spends its free time and which platforms will dominate. As tech and AI companies push further into entertainment and media, their stewardship of that content (or lack thereof) is becoming a story unto itself.

President Donald Trump and other conservatives have accused artificial intelligence chatbots of being politically biased against them—and an executive order he signed that said they must be “neut

Los Angeles Unified School District will ban classroom screen time before second grade and has enacted limited use for older students, under a pioneering policy approved by the school board that reflects growing backlash from parents and educators who are concerned about an over-reliance on computers and technology in K-12 learning. Grassroots coalitions have pushed for limits in California and nationwide as parents have become alarmed over how digital activities are replacing hands-on learning and peer interaction.