In the latest releases of OpenAI’s language models, people have started to notice something: the AI has gotten weirdly ...

“No dissent,” Donald Trump recently posted on social media. Antonia Hitchens reports on the brazenly transactional ecosystem ...

AI researchers call these yes-man antics "sycophancy," which means (like the non-AI meaning of the word) flattering users by telling them what they want to hear. Although since AI models lack ...

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

What if the compliments you thought were kind are actually quietly cutting people down? Find out how subtle biases hide in everyday praise—and what to say instead.

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Divya S. Iyer, wife of Congress leader Sabarinadhan, faced flak for praising CPM’s K.K. Ragesh but maintained her stance, ...

Former Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi, has advised the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, to be cautious ...

Gov. Wes Moore is back after a trade mission to Asia. Will a week of adulation and gift-giving translate into economic growth ...

ChatGPT welcomes kind words, but those “pleases” and “thank yous” are not free. X user, @tomieinlove had tweeted, “I ...

The stakes are high as Giorgia Meloni, a conservative who shares some of Mr. Trump’s nationalist ideology, meets with him on ...