Facebook released an API late last year aimed at developers wanting to build a chatbot for Messenger, but the company's ambitions are now on hold after the AI bots hit a "70% failure rate." The ...

Recent revelations about how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with longstanding concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and ...

Reminding someone who has come to rely on a chatbot that they are not human may push them into what's known as the ...

Neil Young left Facebook in 2019, pointing out its “obvious commitments” to right wing politics, but Reprise Records had continued to run a page there promoting his music and tour dates. That is about ...

Neil Young has a rep for being cantankerous, as when he temporarily dropped off the Glastonbury lineup earlier this year. But it's great to have an rich, aging rock legend who's willing to look at ...

People with mental illness who use AI chatbots risk experiencing a worsening of their condition. This is shown by a new study published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The researchers ...

Karan Sharma is a digital commerce expert and the co-founder at Kinex Media Inc, a creative digital agency in Toronto. Just imagine what would have happened if a time traveler had handed a lighter to ...

Economists and analysts have warned artificial intelligence stocks are showing signs of a bubble—with hype-inflated prices disconnected from their actual value—so we turned to AI chatbots for guidance ...

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.