The operator of Archive.today is unknowingly using visitors to their site for a DDoS attack. A Finnish blogger is affected.

OpenAI has begun placing ads in the basic versions of its ChatGPT chatbot, a bet that users will not mind the interruptions ...

Commercials are the most public display of a rivalry between the two big AI labs as they compete for market share ...

Telehealth firm Ro is using Serena Williams in their ad for GLP-1 weigh loss drugs. Novo Nordisk will run a 90-second ad with ...

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.

In late January, a software maven launched Moltbook, an online platform that artificial-intelligence bots quickly used to ...

Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky.

French prosecutors on Tuesday searched the Paris offices of Elon Musk's X as part of an investigation into alleged political ...

Silverback AI Chatbot has announced ongoing refinement of its AI Chatbot feature, reflecting broader changes in how organizations and digital platforms manage user interaction, information access, and ...

A prolific initial access broker tracked as TA584 has been observed using the Tsundere Bot alongside XWorm remote access ...

A critical-severity vulnerability in the vm2 Node.js sandbox library, tracked as CVE-2026-22709, allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary code on the underlying host system.

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...