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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...

Editor’s Note: In a previous article, Theo Warner explored how digital literacy programs can build resilience against harmful content online. One promising component is psychological ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

This paper examines a new moral hazard in delegated decision-making: authors can embed hidden instructions—known as prompt injections—to bias AI referees in academic peer review. If AI reviews are ...