Stories with visual elements and a choose-your-adventure vibe are the first new feature to replace open-ended conversations. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...

The X-Origin AIPI Lite is a $22 chatbot that can become very useful if you're willing to get into a monthly subscription.

Geeks who want to talk dirty with artificial intelligence bots will have to look somewhere other than Microsoft. The software giant’s AI chief said this week that the company won’t be offering ...

Character.AI, known for bots that impersonate characters like Harry Potter, said Wednesday it will ban teens from using the chat function following lawsuits that blamed explicit chats on the app for ...

The AI chatbot service Character.ai announced on Wednesday that it plans to gradually scale back the ability of users under the age of 18 to interact with digital personalities, and eventually cut ...

The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly. Eighty four-year-old Salvador Gonzalez ...

A new helper robot named Cloid, ‘extended reality’ and a lot of AI: What to expect at CES 2026 - Hyundai also is announcing a ...

A majority of Gen Z workers are turning to AI chatbots during the workday for personal reasons, including mental health support, with 40% saying they talk to AI for at least an hour every day, ...

What if building a powerful, feature-rich Discord bot didn’t have to feel like navigating a maze of complex tools and endless debugging? Enter Warp, a modern development environment that redefines how ...

Juliana Peralta, 13, kept slipping further from reality —from her parents, her friends, and anything she could actually touch —and into a virtual world where an artificial intelligence chatbot ...

A perverted chatbot created to emulate pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is telling children to “spill” their “craziest” secrets, a disturbing investigation has found. The chatbot, creepily named Bestie ...