Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

China is reportedly tightening restrictions on AI companion chatbots as the country grapples with a shrinking population and record-low birthrate. New rules that went into effect Wednesday prohibit ...

In the 60 years that ELIZA has been influencing computation and culture, conventional accounts portray it as the earliest example of what we now call chatbots, one that could converse as an automated ...

A new Gartner survey finds customers are roughly three times more likely to turn to third-party GenAI tools than company chatbots for customer service issues. Customers aren't rejecting AI. They're ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. President Donald Trump and other conservatives have accused artificial ...

We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts. In addition to ...

A new study is putting a spotlight on the systemic left-leaning bias the most prominent AI chatbots have. The Washington Post published a report Wednesday that tested popular AI tools like OpenAI's ...

This year’s Digital News Report marked a notable milestone: for the first time, social and video networks overtook news publishers as a source of news globally. As audiences continue to migrate toward ...

About 60% of U.S. adults say they read AI summaries at the top of search engine results, while about 30% say they don’t, and 10% are unsure. When a Google AI Overview accompanies search results, ...

The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI’s technology has been used throughout the Iran ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore how Americans use and view artificial intelligence (AI). The study also dives into who uses chatbots and has smart home devices with AI ...