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.

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Welcome to 9to5Mac’s top stories of the week, where we recap the biggest news in the Apple world every Saturday. This week, we have rumors on Apple’s upcoming AI chatbot, an AirTag-shaped AI pin, and ...

The company is developing a ‘new version’ of the characters that will offer a ‘better experience.’ The company is developing a ‘new version’ of the characters that will offer a ‘better experience.’ is ...

Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be "temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters ...

Anthropic published a new "constitution" for Claude on Wednesday. It uses language suggesting Claude could one day be conscious. It's also intended as a framework for building safer AI models. How ...

Abstract: By enabling natural language explores driven by Large Language Models (LLMs), the “SQL Chatbot” project SEKS to modify the interaction between users and databases. For nontechnical users, ...

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...

PayPal has agreed to acquire Cymbio, an Israeli platform that helps merchants sell products across AI chatbots, as the payments firm doubles down on agentic commerce. Financial terms of the deal were ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported ...

Bloomberg reports the chatbot version of Siri is slated for release later this year on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bloomberg reports the chatbot version of Siri is slated for release later this year on ...