OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which estimates ...

Even though AI chatbots like ChatGPT can hold a conversation on just about any subject under the sun, they have some flaws. If you use modern chatbots for long enough, you will eventually run into ...

On Thursday, OpenAI released what’s effectively a $200-a-month chatbot — and the AI community didn’t know quite what to make of it. The company’s new ChatGPT Pro plan grants access to ...

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code ...

Many people are turning to AI chatbots for personal needs, whether companionship or emotional support. However, in recent months, there have been heightened concerns about the potential harms of ...

OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know ...

Can you truly be friends with a chatbot? If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In a Reddit thread a year ago, one user wrote that AI friends are “wonderful and ...

The revolutionary chatbot AI can do a surprising amount of tasks, from holding an actual voice conversation to writing an entire term paper. Microsoft integrated the GPT language model behind ...

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work. By Cade Metz and Dylan Freedman Cade Metz reported from San ...

Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of ...

The company’s chatbot can now create elaborate and unusual images. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Chatbots were originally designed to chat. But they can generate images, too.