Society

THE WASHINGTON POST: From curated meetups to AI-powered matching, more adults are relearning how to make friends — and why vulnerability still matters most.

Livestreaming gaming app Twitch has been the latest platform put on warning ahead of Australia’s impending under-16s social media ban. 

Ariana Grande has shared a health update just as the Wicked: For Good press tour wraps, forcing her to cancel several upcoming appearances.

Investors are backing Google-owner Alphabet as an winner in the AI race and shrugging off worries its search business is vulnerable to disruption from the technology.

Meta has announced it will begin notifying teenagers they will lose access to their social media platforms three weeks out from the world-leading ban.

Staff at the school were told to stay quiet about an alarming number of cancer diagnoses. Finally, someone is listening.

It’s a word that would not have existed a few years ago — but why is it so popular now?

THE WASHINGTON POST: We analysed real ChatGPT health chats and asked a top doctor to score them and the gap between confidence and accuracy was startling.

An outage linked to Cloudflare, which provides network and security services for many online businesses, has caused problems for platforms like X and ChatGPT.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Over recent months, scepticism around fluoride has intensified. The people who will suffer most are children who are ‘the most vulnerable of the vulnerable’.

Controversial gaming platform Roblox is rolling out major changes as it seeks to escape Australia’s impending under-16s social media ban.

Up to 350 scientists will be laid off as the national science agency announces a cost-cutting restructure stemming from financial pressures and government funding not keeping up.

In advice that is certain to be on the nose for many, Australian academics are advising parents to ask their babies for consent before changing a nappy.

‘They’re lying to us.’ An expert reveals how to get through to someone you believe has fallen down an internet rabbit hole of misinformation.

DAVE LEE: Discovering you’ve been listening to an AI artist is a deeply violating experience that a good streaming platform should help me, a valued customer, avoid.