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.

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex ...

A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk was in a festive mood over the weekend, issuing a holly jolly “Ho-ho-ho” in the skies. As spotted by the Flightradar24 flight tracking site and shared on its X account, ...

Anthropic has launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly into Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Big quote: Sundar Pichai now talks about vibe coding in the same breath as blogging and YouTube – not as a metaphor for hype but as evidence that software creation is slipping further out of engineers ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own, a move to bolster its proprietary Kiro service, which ...

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Marcelo Calbucci, a longtime Seattle tech and startup community leader.] This month, I ran a survey with early-stage founders from Seattle-based Foundations about ...

Astronomers are puzzled, and that’s putting it mildly. A strange pattern of pulses, repeating like clockwork, has been detected from 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object cruising through our Solar System.

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...