PM, you have three tabs open with 40-minute lecture videos, a 50-page PDF that feels like it’s written in a different language, and a looming exam that’s starting to feel like a nightmare.

Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over “oddly satisfying” videos, like ASMR clips of mixing paint and ...

Before performing the study, the developers in question expected the AI tools would lead to a 24 percent reduction in the time needed for their assigned tasks. Even after completing those tasks, the ...