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Meta’s 2020 study found users who quit Facebook for a week felt less depression, anxiety and loneliness Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by US school districts against … Read more
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
new video loaded: How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. By Kashmir Hill, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Melanie Bencosme, Joey Sendaydiego and James Surdam November … Read more
PUBLISHED November 23, 2025 KARACHI: Pakistan enters each new economic year with the same uneasy mix of hope and exhaustion. Inflation continues to unsettle households, foreign reserves rise and fall without warning, and policymakers describe recovery in terms that feel more like survival than growth. In offices across Karachi and Lahore, young engineers look for … Read more
Offering more than 100 Tbps of total capacity, SEA-ME-WE 6 will provide one of the lowest-latency routes Cables are pictured inside a data centre in Paris, France on March 4, 2019. Photo: Reuters A new South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 submarine cable system is being deployed at Karachi’s Hawkes Bay. The development is expected … Read more
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.
Leo, the first US Pope, spoke for 40 minutes with youth, taking faith questions and offering school advice Pope Leo XIV arrives to hold a general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, November 19, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don’t use it for your homework, … Read more
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?
Initially, Uber Eats customers will be able to receive Starship’s robot deliveries in the Leeds and Sheffield areas Reuters November 21, 2025 Less than a minute read The Uber logo is shown on the building in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 14, 2024. PHOTO: REUTERS Uber will partner with Starship Technologies to launch autonomous robot deliveries … Read more
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.