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• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  How kids feel about AI, in their own words

  Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

  Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

  AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

  LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.
• Categorized in Culture

  Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

  Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there’s a better way.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

  Puzzles and games can reveal gaps in models’ smarts. Try your hand at these seven tests to see if you can outwit AI.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight

  Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is behind one of the buzziest results in rejuvenation science.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

  Laureen Meroueh developed a method that cuts the costs—and the emissions—of steelmaking.