Your kid asks the chatbot a question. It answers in that calm, certain tone, with perfect sentences. Your kid believes it. That is not a failure on their part. It is what almost every kid does. The chatbot sounds sure, so kids assume it knows. Most adults make the same mistake. Most kids cannot tell Common Sense Media asked 1,204 American kids ages 9 to 17 a simple true-or-false question: "AI can tell the difference between things that are true and things that are false." Onl

Your kid is about to watch a computer decide what is for dinner. Not in ten years. The apps are already moving onto the table. On September 30, DoorDash announced an AI agent that lives inside Apple Messages. Text “order my usual” and it builds your cart from your order history, suggests dishes, and checks out with your stored card. It is a limited U.S. beta for now. But the direction is clear: the deciding is leaving the table. A few days later, The Verge reported on October

Your kid's chatbot has a new trick. It does not just answer. It remembers. On October 12, Meta announced its most powerful AI models yet, a family called Muse Wonder. The headline feature has an innocent-sounding name: Active Memory. It means the AI carries context from one conversation into the next, so every chat builds on the last. And Meta says this technology is coming to its Muse personal assistant, the one built into the apps your family already opens every day. Right