First gaining traction online in 2025, "clanker" is a derogatory term used to insult AI, chatbots and robots.

You could be forgiven if you didn’t know the meaning of every word the tweens and teens in your life are using. With terms like “skibidi,” “6-7” and “41” becoming unavoidable for teachers and parents, ...

Debate over the song of the summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front-runner would surely be the onomatopoeic clanker. In recent weeks, clanker has risen to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kids have taken up an anti-robot and anti-AI slang term. But some are treading carefully around the use of a slur — even against ...