Updates on Chatbots

Every AI story we track on Chatbots: 42 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Social Media7 min read

We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt.

Futurism
Consumer Tech5 min read

ChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature has a major privacy catch

TechRadar
Healthcare3 min read

Using AI to offer personalized health advice

Nature

This month

Consumer Tech4 min read

SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?

Engadget
Social Media3 min read

The US government's new AI chatbot gives Minecraft's end poem a bureaucratic twist

Covered by 2 sources

Apple Finally Built a Smarter Siri. It Still Hasn’t Caught Up in the AI Race.

The Wall Street Journal

Musk’s xAI Resolves Claims Against Apple Over AI Competition

Covered by 5 sources
Social Media8 min read

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

IEEE Spectrum

Free OpenHelper AI Chatbot v2 Preview is coming with many features

Hacker News
Consumer Tech9 min read

Chat Bots Compared: An interactive quiz to find AI companions

Hacker News
Dev2 min read

Free accounts can now access ChatGPT's upgraded task scheduling tool

Engadget
Dev4 min read

ChatGPT Plugin Can Now Read And Send Your iMessages, But Should It?

Forbes
Agents4 min read

How to use Claude's voice mode

Engadget

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

Covered by 6 sources
Agents5 min read

The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions

Covered by 2 sources
Agents4 min read

New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand

Futurism

Consultants have found an unlikely new career path: policing AI

Business Insider
Society & Culture2 min read

No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter

The Guardian
Society & Culture8 min read

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

The Next Web

Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

The Next Web

OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself

The Next Web

Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

The Guardian

Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?

Gizmodo

Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots

Hugging Face

Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters

The Guardian

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

TechCrunch

Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

TechCrunch

Making AI chatbots more friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories, study finds

The Guardian

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

Futurism

Unregulated chatbots are putting lives at risk | Letters

The Guardian

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

Futurism

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Gizmodo

US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots

The Guardian

Lonely People Are Better Off Texting Strangers Than Messaging a Chatbot, Study Finds

Gizmodo

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

The Guardian

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

The Guardian

One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: crowdsource the chatbots

TechCrunch

‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy

The Guardian
That's everything we have on Chatbots right now