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A commentary explores how teenagers increasingly turn to AI chatbots instead of working through everyday struggles, like friendship conflicts, on their own. The piece offers guidance for parents on how to let kids use AI tools without losing the chance to develop coping and reasoning skills.
Police in Cologne, Germany, are investigating an incident in which a robot allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl inappropriately. Authorities are examining whether two teenagers were remotely operating the machine at the time of the alleged assault.
An AI industry founder, who also parents two teenagers, writes that people should actively shape how artificial intelligence integrates into daily life rather than leaving those decisions to a small group of technologists. The founder frames this as advice given directly to their own children as they consider future careers.
A user query on Google about appropriate teen screen time triggered an AI-generated summary instead of the traditional list of website links. The AI response offered a specific number but immediately qualified it, noting factors like sleep, mood, exercise, and school demands could matter more than raw hours.
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to US states and roll out new safety features for teen users of Facebook and Instagram, resolving litigation over the platforms' impact on youth mental health. Coming changes include a two-hour daily usage cap for under-18s and a block on access between midnight and 6 a.m., with some restrictions removable only by a parent or guardian. The settlement applies only within the United States.
Laurie Stach, a 2006 MIT graduate, recalled harboring an early drive to tackle big problems and discovered at MIT that many of her peers shared that same ambition. She argues that while adults praise talented young people in math and science, conventional schooling fails to equip them to act on their ideas now rather than in some distant future.
Teenagers and college students across Mexico, Brazil, and Costa Rica are staging public 'aura farming' battles, performing viral internet gestures like the six-seven hand sign and the dab to out-cool one another in parks and campus courtyards. The trend has migrated from social media feeds into real-world gatherings, turning everyday public spaces into informal stages for competitive posturing.