The potential developmental harms of AI slop are a public health concern and need more than parental controls.

Holy 2005! The Cream are a new band formed by Islands/Unicorns‘ Nick Thorburn and Ratatat‘s Mike Stroud. They’ll drop their debut album, A Taste of Cherry, on June 5. Fans of both acts will detect ...

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Is Gen Z finally logging off? Over the past few ...

UCSB scientists discovered that watching just seven minutes can open your mind and enhance creativity. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics When Jonathan Schooler and Madeleine ...

If you’ve spent much time on TikTok recently, you may have noticed a strange new type of AI brain rot taking over: fruit dramas. These AI-generated short dramas feature odd-looking anthropomorphic ...

Apple launched an unconventional TikTok marketing campaign featuring 12 bizarre “brain rot” videos to promote the new MacBook Neo, including content like limes FaceTiming lemons and blushing Apple ...

If you don’t know the term “brain rot” by now, congratulations! You probably don’t have it. It’s slang to describe the idea that being “very online” is harming our brains. It also describes the ...

Medical education is once again in the midst of a technological inflection point. Large language models (LLMs) can now pass licensing-style exams, draft clinical notes, simulate patients, and tutor ...

The Jennifer Aniston neuron refers to a theory of brain formation, positing there are certain neurons which respond to anything vaguely related to one concept, like Jennifer Aniston. If this theory ...

To Gen Alpha, it’s just culture. What’s often dismissed as brain rot is not random noise. It’s a recognisable pattern of content built on repetition, absurdity and rhythm, designed not to explain ...

Short-form video is dominant on social media, and so many of us are constantly scrolling as our algorithm feeds us entertaining clips. So is it causing “brain rot?” This internet slang term has been ...

A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a video that stopped me in my tracks. It starred an animated frog, dressed in a wizard hat, robe, and pink nail polish, superimposed ...