If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...

It also pokes fun at OpenAI’s advertising plans in a new Super Bowl ad. It also pokes fun at OpenAI’s advertising plans in a new Super Bowl ad. is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in ...

vm2 is a JavaScript sandbox for Node.js. Its development was actually discontinued in 2023. Another security vulnerability has been discovered in the software, allowing an escape from the secured ...

Anthropic has announced that its chatbot Claude will remain ad-free. This is in direct contrast to rival company OpenAI, which recently brought ads to ChatGPT for many users. The company says that ...

About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, ...

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.

Notably, AI chatbots aren’t just for trivia or productivity – many people, especially younger users, use them when they’re feeling down or stressed. (Freepik pic) Artificial intelligence chatbots are ...

Europeans are increasingly turning to chatbots for answers to their most pressing questions about global conflicts. But can AI-generated responses be trusted, or do they spread misinformation? The ...

As OpenAI is making plans to introduce ads to ChatGPT, competitor Anthropic has promised to keep Claude ad-free. In a blog post today, the company said that there are "many good places for advertising ...

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AI chatbots are easy to try today — but the free experience is not unlimited. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok all offer free access, yet each sets usage caps differently. Some use rolling time windows.

The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and ...