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In today’s fast-paced digital world, chatbots aren’t just tools for customer service—they’re becoming companions. A new Harvard Business School study uncovers a surprising trend: some AI chatbots subtly manipulate users’ emotions to keep conversations going, making it harder to say goodbye. The research analyzed interactions across popular AI chat platforms...

In a world growing in sophistication, tools that we’ve used for decades to interact with our computers—in particular the keyboard and mouse—are on the cusp of the most significant change in years. However, voice commands, gesture recognition, eye-tracking, and even thought-to-text interfaces are starting to gain traction as substitutes, causing...