The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around

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.
Scientific Research Publishing

Research on the Design of Document Generation System Based on WEB ()

To complete the above system, the author’s main research work includes: 1) Office document automation based on python-docx. 2) Use the Django framework to develop the website.
The Verge

Meta is adding a teleprompter and virtual writing to its Ray-Ban Display glasses

Ray-Ban Display users will soon be able to reply to texts with hand gestures. Ray-Ban Display users will soon be able to reply to texts with hand gestures. is a news writer covering all things ...
Reuters

Clever AI Humanizer by CleverFiles: New Generation of Making AI Writing Sound More Human

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 2, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- CleverFiles, opens new tab has announced the launch of Clever AI Humanizer, opens new tab, a free, browser-based tool designed to help businesses ...
The New Yorker

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...
The New York Times

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

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 ...
MobiHealthNews

Function raises $298M with $2.5B valuation and more digital health funding

Function, a whole-body health company, announced it secured $298 million in an oversubscribed Series B round, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures participated in the round, with ...
TechCrunch

Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...
Newsweek

What Did Jay Jones Say? Read Text Messages in Full

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, a Democrat, is facing growing pressure to drop out of the election race after texts he once sent suggesting a former Virginia House speaker should ...
IEEE

Function-Correcting Codes for Symbol-Pair Read Channels

Abstract: Function-correcting codes (FCCs) are a class of codes designed to protect the function evaluation of a message against errors whose key advantage is the reduced redundancy. In this paper, we ...
GitHub

A Javascript/TypeScript library for reading, manipulating, and writing Touchstone files (.snp files) used in radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering.

RF-Touchstone provides a complete solution for working with S-parameters and other network parameters in JavaScript/TypeScript environments. This library allows you to: Read and parse Touchstone files ...
Windows Report

Surface Pro: How to Use the Pen to Write Text

For fixing Windows errors, we recommend Fortect: Fortect will identify and deploy the correct fix for your Windows errors. Follow the 3 easy steps to get rid of Windows errors: Learning how to use the ...