Americans are using chatbots more than ever before and some are bringing smart devices into their households, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. About half of U.S. adults now report using AI chatbots, up a full 33% from the summer of 2024. This includes roughly one-in-four who use these tools on daily basis. Another quarter report using chatbots several times a week or less. However, only 24% reported using AI for creating and editing images or videos.

  While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted  photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,opened at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Col...