Taboola, the company best known for serving up those weird, clickbaity advertisements you often find beneath online articles, has created an AI chatbot. The tool, called “DeeperDive,” is launching in beta on USA Today and The Independent, and will answer readers’ questions using information “sourced from trusted journalists.”

Chatbots are notoriously sources of misinformation and false confidence, so surely imbuing one with the authority of the federal government won’t cause any problems, right? 404 Media spotted a GitHub repository that shows the Trump administration is working on its very own chatbot that appears set to eventually launch on its own website, AI.gov.

People are turning to AI chatbots for emotional and social support. While chatbot friends can ease loneliness, they can also cause real harm.

Starling, a UK digital bank, has launched a new generative AI chatbot named ‘Spending Intelligence’, integrated within its mobile app. The chatbot is designed to answer customer queries about their spending habits.

Statcounter the easy-to-use web analytics company has announced the launch of new research which measures the number of referrals from individual AI chatbots to websites. The data, updated daily by individual country and region,

The US government is developing a new AI chatbot and integration platform called AI.gov, led by ex-Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd, to modernise federal operations using American-built AI tools.

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT was facing significant disruptions as of Tuesday morning — leaving hundreds of millions of users in limbo.

To make that advice actually useful, here are five powerful AI prompts designed to strengthen the human skills no machine can replace. Use them with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or any of your favorite chatbots to help you train and sharpen the skills that make you uniquely human, as you level up your professional skills.

Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

Krutrim, the AI arm of Bhavish Agarwal's Ola, plans to launch its agentic AI assistant ‘Kruti’ on June 12. Here's what we know so