About 12% of U.S. teens turn to AI for emotional support or advice
General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary.
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Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows
Recent findings also show that video podcasting — while popular — is not necessarily replacing audio shows.
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US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws
The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries’ attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners’ data.
BRYTER Offers Vibe Coding, Returns to Its Roots
Bryter came to market as a no-code platform, helping lawyers to build workflows for specific tasks. Then genAI came along and that changed everything. Now, …
Draftwise Launches AI-Driven Playbook Studio
Contract AI specialists, Draftwise, have launched Playbook Studio, which analyses a firm’s contracts and deal history to automatically generate a ‘customized, deployable playbook in about …
Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.
Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.
Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC’s Winter 2025 cohort.
Jira’s latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side
Atlassian is unveiling “agents in Jira” which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.