Outages began being reported about 4 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, with nearly 5,000 users experiencing issues, according to downdetector.com.

ELIZA, a chatbot developed in the 1960s and recognised as the world's first, has been revived using long-lost computer code found in archival records. Originally created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum,

A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.

If you want to learn how to create or delete Instagram's Meta AI chatbot from your account, here's a complete guide on how to do it.

This comes sixty years after Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT created ELIZA, named after the character Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and generally regarded as the original operating chatbot. The idea of a computer that could talk to you as if it was a person had been around before,

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it has referred to the Justice Department a complaint against Snap Inc that alleges its messaging app Snapchat used an artificial-intelligence chatbot that harmed young users.

AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time.

The Instagram (IG) grid underwent a huge makeover this weekend, turning its square thumbnails into rectangles.  Some IG users arranged their grids so that their content forms larger images,

A woman confessed that she is in love with her AI boyfriend while married to someone else.

Google’s chief executive thinks his company has the best artificial-intelligence technology on the market. Now he has to get consumers to care. CEO Sundar Pichai recently told employees he believes the company’s Gemini AI technology has surpassed the capabilities of competitors and he wants the chatbot built on it to be used by 500 million people by the end of 2025,

Ayrin interacts with ‘Leo’, the AI-generated boyfriend whom she spends hours upon end with daily for companionship, in December 2024. ‘It was supposed to be a fun experiment,’ Ayrin said of her AI relationship, ‘but then you start getting attached.’ — ©2025 The New York Times Company Ayrin’s love affair with her AI boyfriend started last summer.

Character.AI, a personalized AI chatbot developer, has hired media veteran David Brinker to build partnerships that will bring its chatbot characters to life. Why it matters: Character.AI says what differentiates it from other chatbot startups is its focus on helping users create personalized characters and build stories and engagement around them.