Rikki Schlott

2 days ago | nypost.com | Rikki Schlott

Elliston Berry woke up on an October morning during her freshman year of high school to a text from her friend. She was frantic. Photos of the two of them without clothes were circulating around their school. But Berry had never sent anyone a nude photo. Someone had generated the images with artificial intelligence. Neither girl knew what to do. “I was completely, completely shocked,” Berry, then 14, told The Post.

6 days ago | nypost.com | Rikki Schlott

Social media creators have been known to use AI filters to make their waists look smaller or their breasts appear bigger, but now disturbing Instagram and TikTok accounts are stooping to a far more disturbing trick to drive engagement. In videos that are going viral on those platforms, typical facial features associated with Down syndrome are being superimposed over the faces of scantily clad women engaged in sexually suggestive behavior with artificial intelligence.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Rikki Schlott

Robert Rosenkranz is a self-made billionaire. His key to success: stoic philosophy. In his new book, “The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious,” Rosenkranz shares how ancient wisdom from the likes of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius shaped his own success — and can inspire yours, too. “This whole book in a way goes against the grain of a lot of contemporary culture,” Rosenkranz told The Post. “It’s talking about self-reliance.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Rikki Schlott

Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh wants to take a Department of Government Efficiency-style chainsaw to the college’s bureaucracy — and he started by emailing thousands of school administrators to ask what they do all day. “I’m a big fan of cutting wasteful spending,” Shieh, 20, told The Post. “This is no different to what Elon Musk is uncovering in the federal government,” he added, referring to the DOGE head and Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Rikki Schlott

Pro-Palestinian students at Yale pitched a short-lived encampment on Tuesday night — and formed a human chain that kept their Jewish peers from seeing what they were up to, according to a viral social media video. Yale senior Netanel Crispe alleged that the protest was far from peaceful. “I was shouted at quite a lot,” he told The Post. “I had people shoving me. I had people putting their flashlights in my eyes to try to keep me away.