It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language ...

On March 25, a California trial awarded $6 million to a plaintiff who argued that the addictive qualities of social media had ...

Is social media addiction real? A new study explores the brain changes and psychological impacts of excessive use following a landmark $6 million California court ruling.

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...

If one accepts proclamations by plaintiffs’ attorneys in today’s consolidated social media addiction cases in Los Angeles, the companies behind online applications such as Instagram (Meta) and YouTube ...

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The use of artificial intelligence and digital systems is emerging as a method to understand, identify and respond to addiction, demonstrating technology’s capacity to aid public health initiatives, ...

Tom Petty sang that “the waiting is the hardest part.” It’s a take-it-to-the-heart maxim currently holding true for anyone anticipating the trial-court resolution of more than 2,000 lawsuits (as of ...

The Director of Treatment at Clínica RECAL discusses technology addiction, an increasingly common and, in many cases, ...

Hours after a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a young user by utilizing addictive features, attorneys involved in the case filed suit against DraftKings and FanDuel and accused the ...

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...