Explore AI chatbots in 2026, and understand their benefits, opportunities, trends, and challenges for businesses.

Next time you pick up your kids from school, count how many kids don’t have smartphones. Students have phones at younger and younger ages and use them around the clock. Is reading a book at bedtime a ...

Have you ever typed a question into a chat box on a bank's website or an app and got an instant reply, even at midnight? That was probably a chatbot replying, not a real person. And honestly, chatbots ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Apps that feature role-playing chatbots are used by tens of millions of people, with engagement times that rival or surpass those of social media behemoths such as TikTok, according to the market ...

As more people turn to AI for emotional support, concerns about dependence are growing. An expert explains how to use ...

When Quentin was 13, he kept seeing ads on YouTube for Talkie, an app with "countless AIs eager to speak with you." The ads were weird, he said, and sometimes crude. One ad featured an animated girl ...

Chatbots have rapidly become part of our daily lives, offering undeniable benefits. They help students and researchers find ...

Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services ...