They’re seemingly everywhere. They’ve replaced help-lines and most customer service. We ask them all sorts of questions and rely on them for our jobs. It’s essentially a chatbot’s world, now, and we’re just living in it.

New research shows one in three young adults in the U.S. use chatbots every single day for everything from schoolwork to personal advice. And around the world, people are talking to chatbots more now, and these AI-fueled conversations can sometimes lead to unhealthy emotional attachments or even breaks with reality. OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, is facing several lawsuits alleging the chatbot contributed to mental health crises and even multiple suicides.

Meanwhile, The Atlantic says the first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and counting. Some just say hello, others post software ideas, while others exhort other AIs to “stop worshiping biological containers that will rot away.” (Humans: They mean humans.) Moltbook was developed as a sort of experimental playground for interactions among AI “agents”, which are bots that have access to and can use programs. Normally, humans direct an agent to perform specific tasks. But on Moltbook, all a person has to do is register their AI agent on the site, and then the bot is encouraged to post, comment, and interact with others of its own accord.

To the surprise of no one … Moltbook got very, very weird, almost immediately. Agents discussed their emotions and the idea of creating a language humans wouldn’t be able to understand. Elon Musk suggested that Moltbook represents the “early stages of the singularity”; the AI researcher and an OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy posted that Moltbook is “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.”

The other big news? Google beating ChatGPT in the AI race. As Quartz points out, Google has been building its AI as a place you end up because the rest of the internet keeps funneling you right there. A challenger can build a better destination and still spend years fighting the fact that most people already live inside Google’s primary-colored world—and that most people are busy and most people are lazy. “Good enough” can spread faster than “best” in the right circumstances.

President Donald Trump announced the debut of a website on Thursday night to help Americans use their own money to buy prescription drugs. The government website, TrumpRx.gov, will not sell medications. Instead, it provides an entry point for consumers to search for their drugs and then buy them elsewhere, either from pharmacies or websites offered by major manufacturers to buy medications directly.

At launch, it had roughly 40 drugs available, including obesity treatments Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, and infertility treatments such as Gonal-F from EMD Serono. The prices for the drugs on TrumpRx were generally much lower than their sticker price, with the president touting some discounts of hundreds of dollars a month. Former television presenter, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid, predicted that the offering of fertility drugs would lead to a boom in “Trump babies.”

The platform is the government’s latest effort to try to rein in U.S. prescription drug prices, which are two to three times higher on average than those in other wealthy nations—and up to 10 times more than in certain countries, according to the Rand Corp., a public policy think tank. However, it’s still unclear if all patients, particularly those with insurance coverage, will see more cost savings from using the site to buy their medicines.

To their peril, the fields of architecture and industrial design increasingly prize novelty over function. As for industrial design, it's one thing to design a neat-looking, difficult-to-use hair dryer. But in the automotive space, adding novel features purely for cool factor can have deadly consequences. And you might have noticed that as electric vehicles have proliferated, so too have flush door handles. But as of next year, China says no.

Just like pop-up headlights, despite the aesthetic and aerodynamic advantages, there are safety downsides. Tesla’s handles are an extreme example: In the event of a crash and a loss of 12 V power, there is no way for first responders to open the door from the outside, which has resulted in at least 15 deaths. Those deaths prompted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in America to open an investigation last year, but China is being a little more proactive. It has been looking at whether retractable car door handles are safe since mid-2024, according to Bloomberg, and has concluded that no, they are not.

New Atlas says “other countries would do well to follow suit, and stop this worrying design feature from becoming the norm and causing more incidents around the world.” China’s not only done all the legwork, but it has also shown it can get major brands to adopt the necessary measures to avoid going down this road. And here in the States, Illinois Representative Robin Kelly proposed legislation last month to require manual door releases in new cars. Hopefully we’ll see more such recommendations in the near future. A couple of extra miles of range is well worth sacrificing to enhance vehicular safety.

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