As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.

The suit cites a police arrest that occurred in December, documenting an instance in which the individual used Grok to strip a blue bikini from a photo that a girl posted to her I ...

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The mosquito of greatest concern is widespread in Australia and closely associated with suburban areas. Commonly known as the Australian backyard mosquito, Aedes notoscriptus is a nuisance-biting pest ...

A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hausfeld, Hecht Partners, and DiCello Levitt today announced the submission of a petition to the UN Global Compact calling for an immediate review to determine ...

The Trump administration’s removal of the multicolor gay pride flag from the federal Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village insults history and must be reversed. That flag has to fly again ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. There’s a new social media site, but you’re not allowed to join; it’s for artificial intelligence agents only. Last week ...

Use escalation trigger words. Say “agent,” “representative,” “billing issue,” or “legal concern” — then stop talking so the system flags your request for a human. Keep responses short and direct. Long ...