chatbot

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (www.axios.com)
15 hours ago SaaS AI chatbot

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (www.reuters.com)
15 hours ago Alibaba AI chatbot

New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards (www.eurekalert.org)
1 day ago AI chatbot

OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after raising $210M in July (www.nytimes.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot Browser

ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (www.wired.com)
4 days ago China Mexico Asia AI chatbot Southeast Asia

Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot and human physicians to provide virtual care, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and GV (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
4 days ago AI chatbot

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago chatbot WhatsApp Ban

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (www.404media.co)
6 days ago AI chatbot

Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Mobile chatbot

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI chatbot California

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (restofworld.org)
11 days ago China AI chatbot

AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago AI chatbot

A survey of US parents: 90% say their kids aged 12 or younger watch TV, 68% say their kids use a tablet, and 61% use a smartphone; 8% of kids use an AI chatbot (www.pewresearch.org)
15 days ago AI chatbot

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago chatbot Spotify

Meta plans to start using users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, and the EU (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago Korea AI chatbot

Apple files a motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit, which alleges that Apple's ChatGPT integration stifles competition, saying it plans to integrate other chatbots (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Apple chatbot

Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release, sources: Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Apple chatbot MacBook 4Q

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (www.businessinsider.com)
26 days ago AI chatbot

Why AI Chatbots Can't Process Persian Social Etiquette (tech.slashdot.org)
29 days ago AI chatbot

Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-19 chatbot Elon Musk

After Child's Trauma, Chatbot Maker Allegedly Forced Mom To Arbitration For $100 Payout (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-18 chatbot

Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-17 Amazon AI chatbot

Parents of teens who died by suicide after AI chatbot interactions testify to Congress (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-17 AI chatbot

A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-16 AI chatbot

A look at emerging faith tech apps like Hallow that use AI chatbots for digital chaplaincy, amid concerns over data privacy and their quality of faith guidance (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-16 AI chatbot

How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (apnews.com)
2025-9-14 AI chatbot

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-12 AI chatbot California Senate

The FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to provide information on how their AI chatbots impact children and teens (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-12 Google AI chatbot Instagram

Meta hiring contractors to build AI chatbots in Hindi with cultural nuances: report (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 AI chatbot

Previous Page Next Page