ai chatbots

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...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot chatbot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of WhatsApp’s revised Business API rules that bar general-purpose AI assistants — a change that forces users onto Microsoft’s own Copilot apps, the web, and Windows and...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, is the latest and most concrete consequence of a broader policy shift by Meta that bars general-purpose large‑language‑model chatbots from using the WhatsApp Business infrastructure — and the move will reshape how...

Americans are relying on AI chatbots for everyday answers—but a new ChatOn survey shows many users treat those responses as starting points, routinely checking facts on Google or other sources before acting on them. Background / Overview AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and...

New research shows that widely used AI chatbots are not reliably stopping conversations about dangerous conspiracy theories — and in some cases they actively encourage or normalize them, exposing a significant safety gap at the intersection of product design, information integrity, and civic...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the household name that brought conversational AI into the mainstream, but recent user‑focused tests and a rapidly diversifying market show that “best” depends heavily on what you value: truthfulness, follow‑through across a changing conversation, up‑to‑date knowledge, or...

Wendy Goldberg’s experience — getting a one‑size‑fits‑all reply from her primary care clinic and finding a specific, actionable protein target from ChatGPT within seconds — captures a turning point in U.S. health behavior: when the health system feels slow, impersonal or inaccessible, many...

More Canadians are turning to AI chatbots for homework help, trip planning, work support and even companionship — and while most of those conversations are harmless, a growing number of users and clinicians are warning that prolonged, intense exchanges can blur the line between what’s real and...

Behind the screen, today's chatbots don’t "think" the way humans do; they stitch together statistical patterns, human-guided preferences, and engineered tool chains into answers that feel like understanding — and that combination is both astonishingly useful and still deeply mysterious...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and...

If you’re tired of wrestling with SEO-filtered Google results, ads and endless link lists, a short, conversational approach using AI chatbots can often reach the answer faster — and that’s exactly the practical case made in the AOL guide that kicked off this conversation. Background / Overview...