The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement and the National Guard deployment in the capital city. By Minho Kim ...

Members of a U.S. House committee criticized Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith's leadership and accused her of directing commanders to manipulate crime data. In an interim report, the ...

When my late lab partner Xu Liu and I first illuminated the brain cells that stored a particular memory, it felt like watching a thought flicker back to life. We stimulated a constellation of neurons ...

Microsoft studied interactions between AI customers and vendors. Most agents failed to resist manipulation and make wise choices. The results underscore the dangers of an AI agent-run economy. As ...

After several election cycles where polls were off base and media coverage was biased, prediction markets promised to be technology’s answer to flawed polling, offering real-time data and financial ...

As long as financial markets have existed, so has market manipulation. But what if the people engaging in market manipulation aren't people at all? The indicators, Adrian Ma and Wailin Wong uncover ...

A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School has found that a broad selection of popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving. As spotted by ...

Prior to 2023, not many outside of Philadelphia knew who Eagles senior advisor to the general manager/chief security officer/gameday coaching operations Dom DiSandro was. Then the 46-year-old staffer ...

Having conversations can sometimes feel like walking through a minefield, especially when you suspect someone's trying to pull your strings. Whether it's a coworker, a friend, or a family member, ...

De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz Uğuralp, and Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp. "Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 26-005, August 2025. (Revised October 2025.) ...

Investor concerns about manipulation of the consumer-price index may be exaggerated. Such concerns have grown since President Donald Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after ...

On July 28, Lo Bosworth announced that she married Dom Natale and that the pair are expecting their first child together Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, ...