Those were the last messages exchanged by 14-year-old Sewell Setzer and the chatbot he developed a romantic relationship with ...

I just didn't think anything about it. It was something that he and his friends were all doing," one Manhattan dad said about ...

Amy Gifford, the mother of an adolescent boy and girl in Salem, Massachusetts, said her daughter often gets together with ...

Several major social media platforms are being sued by New York City in the latest fight against tech giants over the impact ...

Walk into nearly any American school this fall and you’ll see a striking trend: phones are gone. Locked pouches. Classroom baskets. Outright bans. Three out of four U.S. public schools now prohibit ...

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There’s a new AI app in town. It’s called Sora 2, and it’s poised to give social apps like TikTok and Instagram reels some serious competition. Type something like “a golden retriever skateboarding ...

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Social platforms Snapchat and Discord were also sued for facilitating abuse. In other lawsuits, parents accuse Minecraft and Fortnite of design choices that induce internet gaming disorder.