ai chatbots

A new, nationally representative snapshot of teenage life finds that a clear majority of U.S. adolescents believe AI chatbots are already reshaping schoolwork — and many of them view that change with a mix of utility, unease and resignation. The Pew Research Center’s survey of 1,458 American...

Microsoft’s Copilot emerged as the clear favorite in Android Central’s recent reader poll — a decisive result that surprised many because broader usage and traffic data paint a much more complicated picture of which AI chatbots people actually use in the wild. Background Android Central asked...

People often treat ChatGPT and its peers like private assistants — but when you type, upload, or speak sensitive material into a chatbot, you may be handing away control of that information in ways most users don’t expect. The short list published by mainstream outlets — identity documents...

The head-to-head tests and archive analysis of a seven‑way chatbot roundup deliver a clear, practical takeaway: there is no single “best” AI chatbot for every job — instead, pick the assistant that matches the task you need done, and treat every answer as a draft that needs verification...

The sudden appearance of ad-like suggestions inside chat-based AI has forced a hard question onto product teams, publishers and marketers: can AI chatbots monetize without undermining the single asset that makes them valuable — user trust? Background The context: chat as a new discovery surface...

There is no single “best” AI chatbot — and that’s the most important takeaway from a year of head‑to‑head testing that put Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and others through dozens of real‑world tasks judged by humans. The practical winner is not one model but a tool‑for‑task...

If you’re standing at the AI crossroads wondering whether to start with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, or another assistant, the right answer is: it depends on what you need to do and how much risk you can tolerate. TechRadar’s beginner guide frames the...

Meta’s move to exclude rival generative AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been paused in Italy as the country’s competition watchdog steps in, raising the stakes in a cross‑border clash between platform control and open AI competition. Background Since early 2025, WhatsApp has evolved from a pure...

The City of Windsor has quietly approved a six‑month pilot that will route routine calls about speeding tickets and other Provincial Offences Act matters to a voice‑enabled AI chatbot — a move the city frames as a cost‑saving, service‑accessibility measure that will free front‑line staff for...

I am Anmol, an AI manager at Sugarlab AI, and I’ve been closely analyzing results and user feedback across different AI porn generator platforms for quite a while now. Even after observing numerous tools and experiments, I keep noticing that other systems still fall short in nearly every serious...

A widely trusted class of browser add-ons—free VPNs, ad blockers and “browser guard” tools—has quietly been turned into a mass data‑collection pipeline, capturing full AI chat transcripts from millions of users and funneling the results to analytics backends operated by the extension publisher...

Almost two-thirds of American teenagers now report having used an AI chatbot, and roughly three in ten say they interact with one every day — a rapid shift from novelty to routine that raises immediate questions about education, equity, and safety for a digitally native generation. Background...

AI chatbots have crossed a threshold: they are now a routine part of many teenagers’ online lives, with a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey finding that roughly 64% of U.S. teens have used a chatbot and about three in ten use one every day. Background The Pew Research Center’s...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

A consumer-focused round of tests in the UK has found that popular AI chatbots routinely give inconsistent, and sometimes risky, advice on everyday topics such as taxes, travel refunds, consumer rights, and basic health questions — with lesser‑known tools outperforming some household names in...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s owner rewrote its Business Solution (Business API) terms to explicitly forbid general-purpose AI assistants from operating as primary services through the platform — a policy change that forces...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp is the latest and most visible sign that the era of distributing full‑featured large language model (LLM) assistants inside third‑party messaging platforms is colliding with platform policy, infrastructure limits, and emerging regulatory caution...

WhatsApp’s recent rewrite of its Business Solution terms is triggering a dramatic redistribution of where conversational AI lives: starting January 15, 2026, third‑party, general‑purpose chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp’s Business API...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot and other third‑party AI chatbots out of WhatsApp marks a clear and immediate shift: beginning January 15, 2026, WhatsApp’s Business Solution will no longer be usable as a distribution channel for general‑purpose large‑language‑model assistants, forcing...

Microsoft confirmed this week that Copilot — its consumer-facing AI assistant — will no longer operate inside WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, a decision Microsoft says is the direct result of an update to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that bars general-purpose LLM chatbots from the...