Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about 3 in 10 who do so daily.Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S. teens from Sept. 25 to O...

Apple was granted a patent that could reshape how sound systems are integrated into devices with displays, such as iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and even wearables. The patent describes a novel audio transducer system designed to mitigate electromagnetic interference between speakers and display data lines. This innovation addresses a long-standing engineering challenge: how to embed powerful speak...

Limitless, the AI startup formerly known as Rewind, has been acquired by Meta, the company announced Friday on its website. The company, which made an AI-powered pendant to record your conversations, says it will no longer sell its hardware devices and will maintain support for its existing customers for a year.Customers will no longer have to pay a subscription fee and will be moved to the Unl...

Recently we laid out the current autonomous ride-share landscape, which is mostly a battle between Google’s Waymo and Tesla. According to a new report from Morgan Stanley’s research team that looks forward to the next half decade, robotaxis’ future — while expected to grow rapidly — might not be so different.In 2032, the Morgan Stanley research team expects Waymo and Tesla to command about...

When OpenAI unveiled an artificial intelligence-based browser in October, Alphabet Inc. investors expressed concern about what it would mean for Google Chrome, the ubiquitous gateway to the internet used by billions globally.And yet, current versions of AI browsers are far from making legacy products like Chrome obsolete: New offerings from companies such as OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc. presen...

From 2019 to 2025, Pop Mart International Group transformed from a niche collectible retailer into a $2.5 billion global phenomenon — driven almost entirely by one product: Labubu.Our RB analysis shows that the introduction and popularization of the Labubu collectible line ignited Pop Mart’s most explosive period of growth to date, multiplying revenue 33× in just six years.Beginning as a...

Everyone is racing to build the next great AI gadget. Some companies are betting on smartglasses, others on pins and pocket companions. All of them promise an assistant that can see, hear, and understand the world around you. Very few ask a simpler question: What if the smartest AI hardware is just a better pair of earbuds?This concept imagines TWS earbuds with a twist. Each bud carries an extr...

Inside noisy environments, traditional earbuds either block all sound or let everything in, failing to focus on a single conversation the way humans do. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a proactive hearing assistant that uses AI to identify who the wearer is speaking with and enhance only those voices in real time without gestures or manual selection. The system detect...

ChatGPT now serves more than 800 million users every week, and this rapid consumer adoption has created a powerful flywheel, accelerating the pace at which AI is being brought into work and professional settings.The history of general purpose technologies—from steam engines to semiconductors—shows that significant economic value is created after firms translate underlying capabilities into sc...