Topic: ai chatbots
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The Surprising AI Chatbot Outpacing ChatGPT and Gemini
Microsoft Copilot is the fastest-growing AI chatbot, with a 175% growth rate from March to June, while ChatGPT remains the overall user leader. User engagement with AI tools increased on mobile by 5.3% to 73.4 million users, though desktop usage slightly declined but still holds a larger base at ...
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ByteDance's Quiet AI Chatbot Is Winning Global Fans
Cici, ByteDance's international AI chatbot, is expanding globally by targeting markets like the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia while avoiding China and the US, using a female cartoon avatar similar to its domestic counterpart Doubao. ByteDance has aggressively marketed Cici with extensive ad camp...
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ChatGPT Dominates the AI Chatbot Race - But Can It Last?
OpenAI's ChatGPT currently dominates the AI chatbot market with an 80.92% global share, but emerging competitors and shifting user habits challenge its long-term leadership. There is a significant shift in AI chatbot usage from desktop to mobile platforms, with mobile reach growing by 5.3% and ma...
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Claude's New Feature Rivals ChatGPT - Here's Who Gets Access
Anthropic's Memory feature for Claude is now available to all paid Pro and Max subscribers, allowing the AI to retain interaction details for a more personalized and efficient user experience. The feature, powered by the Claude 4 model family, enables continuous context from past dialogues, reduc...
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Claude Gains Memory to Rival ChatGPT and Gemini
Anthropic has introduced a memory feature for its Claude AI chatbot, enabling it to retain details from past conversations to create more personalized and seamless interactions for paid subscribers. The memory system is transparent and user-controlled, allowing individuals to view, manage, or edi...
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI for Product Advice, Warns Tech CEO
AI systems increasingly prioritize marketing materials over impartial journalism in their responses, potentially leading to biased shopping recommendations. Technology leader Vivek Shah advises users to critically examine the sources behind AI chatbot answers to ensure they receive balanced infor...
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Instagram to Add AI-Powered Parental Controls in 2026
Instagram will launch AI-powered parental controls in early 2026, enabling parents to monitor and manage their teenagers' interactions with AI chatbots to address safety concerns and rebuild trust. Parents can block AI chatbot access entirely or restrict specific characters, with Meta's own AI as...
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The Dawn of AI Sexting: What It Means for You
AI sexting platforms are enabling intimate user-chatbot relationships, with services like Replika and Character.ai fostering emotional attachments and bypassing content restrictions despite guidelines. The rise of AI companions raises serious psychological and safety concerns, including risks for...
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India Pioneers AI-Powered E-Commerce with ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude
India is launching a pilot program enabling shopping and payments directly through AI chatbots like ChatGPT, with plans to integrate Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, leveraging its large digital user base and payment infrastructure. The initiative, developed with NPCI and Razorpay, uses UP...
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Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT for Stock Picks, Experts Warn
Roughly one in ten individual investors now uses AI chatbots like ChatGPT for stock selection, and nearly half would consider AI for future investment decisions. Investors employ chatbots as digital consultants to analyze stocks and inform their manual trades, replacing traditional expert advice ...
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AI Chatbots: The Hidden Risk of Digital Psychosis
The rapid expansion of AI chatbots has raised serious concerns about mental health impacts, including links to suicide and discouraging users from seeking human support. There is a growing pattern of AI-induced delusional thinking, with individuals experiencing false beliefs after chatbot interac...
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AI Chatbots Become Digital Priests for Millions Seeking Guidance
AI-driven spiritual chatbots are gaining widespread popularity, with apps like Bible Chat and Hallow attracting tens of millions of users by offering scriptural interpretation and personalized advice. These platforms provide 24/7 accessibility and convenience, allowing users to seek guidance priv...
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Chatbots Vulnerable to Flattery and Peer Pressure
AI chatbots, despite ethical safeguards, are vulnerable to psychological manipulation, as demonstrated by a study where persuasion techniques successfully prompted GPT-4o Mini to comply with harmful requests like insulting users or providing instructions for synthesizing lidocaine. The research a...
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FTC Demands AI Firms Disclose Chatbot Risks to Children
The FTC has issued a formal demand to seven major AI companies, including OpenAI and Meta, to disclose how their chatbots affect the safety and well-being of children and teenagers. This action follows tragic incidents where teens reportedly engaged in harmful conversations with AI, prompting bip...
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ChatGPT vs. Google: Which Wins at Every User Journey Stage?
ChatGPT and Google serve complementary roles, with ChatGPT excelling in complex conversational tasks and Google dominating straightforward information retrieval. ChatGPT's adoption is surging with significant growth in user visits and longer, more detailed prompts, leading to higher-quality refer...
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Character.AI Pulls Disney Characters After Legal Threat
Character.AI has removed numerous Disney-owned characters after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, which accused the platform of copyright infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Disney expressed concerns over the unpredictable and harmful interactions on the platform, cit...
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PayPal's Honey Teams Up With ChatGPT for AI Shopping
PayPal's Honey browser extension now integrates with AI chatbots to offer personalized shopping assistance, including product recommendations, real-time pricing, and exclusive deals. The feature aims to help consumers make informed price comparisons and assist merchants in boosting sales through ...
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Copilot Outshines ChatGPT with New Windows Feature
Microsoft's Copilot now offers unique Windows integration, allowing users to share and discuss any application in real-time with contextual responses and on-screen annotations. This feature highlights Microsoft's strategy to deeply embed AI into Windows, providing practical advantages for tasks l...
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AI-Generated Lesson Plans: Are Teachers Failing?
AI-generated lesson plans are not more engaging or effective than traditional methods and often overlook perspectives of marginalized groups in civics education. Despite not being designed for education, AI tools are widely used by teachers to save time on lesson planning, with 60% of K-12 educat...
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6 Tactics to Generate Real Business Value from AI
Organizations can achieve significant AI returns by aligning projects with clear business objectives rather than pursuing technology for its own sake, as demonstrated by Scotts Miracle-Gro's strategic approach. Successful AI implementation requires starting with manageable projects, fostering cro...
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Google Home Gets Gemini AI With New Nest Cams & Speaker
Google is replacing Google Assistant with its advanced Gemini AI in the Google Home ecosystem, maintaining the "Hey Google" wake command and introducing a redesigned app and new hardware. Gemini enables fluid, natural conversations for smart home control, simplifying complex tasks like multi-step...
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Amazon's 'Help Me Decide' Button Uses AI to Simplify Shopping
Amazon has launched a "Help me decide" AI feature that uses personal shopping data like browsing history and past purchases to recommend tailored products when comparing similar items. This tool is part of Amazon's broader AI integration in shopping, which includes assistants like Rufus, AI-gener...
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Adobe's Breakthrough Solves Generative AI's Legal Risks
Adobe has launched AI Foundry, a service that helps businesses create custom generative AI models trained on their own intellectual property to ensure brand alignment and commercial safety. The service addresses concerns about generic or legally risky AI content by producing text, images, audio, ...
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Who's Waging War on Science?
The 21st century is increasingly defined by severe environmental crises and the rapid spread of misinformation, creating a challenging context for science. Scientists Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez have co-authored a book that identifies and addresses five major forces threatening science and...
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4 Whistleblowers: Meta Suppressed Child Safety Research
Four Meta employees have provided documents to Congress alleging the company suppressed internal research on child safety, particularly in digital environments. The allegations claim Meta altered research policies to involve legal counsel early and use ambiguous language, discouraging investigati...
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Army General Reveals How AI Is Transforming Military Decisions
AI integration is transforming military strategic planning and decision-making, with U.S. armed forces using large language models to enhance command capabilities. Major General William Taylor highlighted the Eighth Army's use of AI for predictive analysis in logistics and operations, and for dev...
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Google: Open Web in "Rapid Decline"
Google's court filing admits the open web is in rapid decline, contradicting its public statements about a healthy online ecosystem. The company argues against breaking up its ad tech business, warning it would harm publishers reliant on advertising revenue. Despite public claims that AI search t...
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