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OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which estimates traffic to ...

ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI, far outpaces all other AI chatbot apps on mobile devices in terms of downloads and is a market leader by revenue, as well. However, it’s surprisingly not ...

Le Chat is France’s answer to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. Built to be fast and compliant with European laws, it’s a different way to find answers with the help of AI. Capable of fielding ...

Samuel Conibear has been an Android obsessive since the first HTC Desire was released back in 2010. When he wasn't playing with custom ROMs, he was enjoying a successful career helping businesses grow ...

I rina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Chatbots are here, integrated more and more into many people’s ...

Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

Earlier this week, Eva AI hosted a two-day pop-up AI cafe in New York City, where AI chatbot enthusiasts could live out their fantasies in public. The 5-year-old tech company took over a wine bar in ...

Andres Colón Pérez, the chief technology architect at CMS, said the agency’s embrace of its internal chatbot evolved out of the promises of generative AI tools, but with a recognition of their ...