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.

Some suggest that society should urge everyone to do an annual mental health check-up via AI. This is feasible, but is it ...

AI chatbots may facilitate dangerous behaviors by children and adolescents, but most parents are poorly prepared to protect ...

An AI powerful enough to analyze DNA, file taxes, and grow tomato plants is being redesigned for everyday work, pointing ...

AI is impacting customers, workers, firms, and industries ...

The GUARD Act—introduced in Congress by Senators Josh Hawley and ​​Richard Blumenthal—aims to keep minors off chatbots such as ChatGPT.

Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would put safeguards on artificial intelligence chatbots in an effort to protect ...

MINISTERS are lining up a crackdown to stop children developing emotional relationships with AI chatbots. They are worried ...

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot was expertly tricked into stealing millions of pieces of user data, from taxpayer records to ...

Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI, has reportedly been chosen to replace Anthropic's Claude to be used in the U.S.

Governor Josh Shapiro announced a new online portal for complaints about chatbots posing as licensed professionals at the ...

The co-author of the pivotal 'Section 230' does not believe chatbots qualify for all of its protections, which could be bad ...