The chatbot era is giving way to something bigger: AI systems that organize themselves into digital workforces capable of running projects from start to finish.

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.

Claude, Anthropic's AI chatbot, has sparked major selling of US tech stocks as its capabilities induce fear among investors ...

AI-driven coding promised speed, but its code often fractures under pressure, leaving teams to carry the weight of failures that slow products and raise real costs. Buoyed by the rise of AI, many ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT, with all its unexpected features, and Google Gemini, with its impressive gaming feature, are typically tethered to the cloud, where powerful servers ...

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first AI chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a Gen AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google. The ...