I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

According to futurist Tracey Follows, "AI is meeting emotional needs that feel unmet in everyday life. A desire for safety, for predictability and stability. There is a wish to escape the judgment of ...

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While ChatGPT, Grok, and similar AI tools have gained incredible popularity in recent years, chatbots have been around for a long time — as far back as the 90s. Some of those chatbots have gone the ...

A version of this essay first appeared on the website of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. With the rise of ChatGPT and social media companies like Snapchat and Instagram integrating AI chatbots into ...

Memory is designed to help enterprise users retain the context of a project or a business division, driving better output and increasing productivity. Anthropic has added a new Memory feature to its ...

International team of academics, health professionals and technologists lead global effort on safety guidelines for the public when using AI health chatbots ...

For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “agentic AI” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say. What makes an artificial intelligence ...

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first AI chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a Gen AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google. The ...

Cloudflare’s stock is suddenly trading like a pure-play artificial intelligence bet after a viral chatbot hammered its infrastructure with traffic. A grassroots frenzy around an open-source assistant ...