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Workers set up a tent outside of Madison Square Garden ahead of a reported wedding between singer Taylor Swift and National Football League player Travis Kelce on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Madison Square Garden is abuzz with eager Swifties ahead of Swift-Kelce wedding

July 2, 2026 at 6:05 p.m.

The couple are “literally the king and queen of America,” said Kristen Donohue, who stopped by the area surrounding Madison Square Garden Thursday with a fellow Swiftie co-worker on their...

Pope Leo XIV, left, greets Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah during the presentation of the Pope’s first encyclical, “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” at the Vatican, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

May 25, 2026 at 10:19 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding...

Attendees pose for photos before the keynote presentation at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Google announces slew of AI advances, including a personal AI assistant coming soon

May 19, 2026 at 3:31 p.m.

Google will soon unleash a wealth of new artificial intelligence-powered tools and systems, including an AI assistant that will help users by proactively performing tasks on their behalf.

Festivalgoers are seen during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2025, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Coachella looks like fun and glamour for influencers. Behind the scenes, they fiercely strategize.

April 10, 2026 at 12:05 p.m.

Social media content that comes out of Coachella often looks spontaneous, but many content creators engage in intense levels of planning.

FILE – The icons for the YouTube Kids and YouTube apps are displayed on a smartphone in New York on April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from ‘AI slop’ videos

April 1, 2026 at 7:41 a.m.

Advocacy groups and experts condemned YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children.

Julianna Arnold, left, mother and advocate for online child safety after her 17-year-old daughter, Coco, died in 2022 from fentanyl poisoning following a social media encounter, hugs Mandi Furniss, parent of LJ, 18, from East Texas before they enter court for closing arguments in a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles Thursday, March. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial

March 25, 2026 at 5:35 p.m.

A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services, awarding the plaintiff...

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky, who grew up in the Chicago area, dies of cancer at 43

March 23, 2026 at 5:44 p.m.

Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans, the adult content platform, has died from cancer, according to the company. He was 43.

Emma MacTaggart, founder of What’s the Stitch needlepoint business, is photographed in her studio, in New York, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

From blacksmithing to needlepoint, young people are embracing ‘grandma hobbies’

March 9, 2026 at 1:21 p.m.

Young people are turning to analog hobbies and activities as a means of escaping technology and reconnecting with childlike creativity and exploration.

FILE – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an event at the Biohub Imaging Institute in Redwood City, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Mark Zuckerberg testifies at trial accusing social media firms of addicting kids to their platforms

February 18, 2026 at 3:15 p.m.

Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children.

FILE – Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Social media ‘addicting the brains of children,’ plaintiff’s lawyer argues in landmark trial

February 10, 2026 at 8:13 a.m.

Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta...

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