Ai Chatbots

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  Google’s Year in Search 2025: Top Trending Topics in India—From Gemini to Squid Games

  Google on Thursday announced the Year in Search 2025, revealing several notable trends with regard to searches made by users in India this year. The most trending search in 2025 was the Indian Premier League, owing to the strong affection for the sport in the country. Gemini, surprisingly, was the second most trending search, which indicates increa...

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  ChatGPT Could Soon Be Integrated With Apple Health App: Report

  ChatGPT may soon integrate with Apple’s Health app, according to a report that found Health app imagery inside the chatbot’s latest iOS build. The discovery suggests ChatGPT could eventually analyse activity, sleep or diet data to answer health-related queries, though no implementation details are visible yet. Neither company has confirmed the ...

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  Amazon’s Rufus AI Chatbot Helps Drive Black Friday Sales and Engagement, Data Shows

  New data suggests Amazon’s AI shopping assistant Rufus helped boost both engagement and sales during Black Friday. According to Sensor Tower, shopping sessions with Rufus rose 86 percent compared to a recent non-sale day, while purchases from Rufus-assisted sessions were 75 percent higher than non-Rufus ones. Adoption is still limited, but the tr...

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  Google's Gemini Could Soon Be Updated With a ChatGPT-Style Projects Feature: Report

  Google is reportedly preparing to add a Projects feature to Gemini, offering a sandboxed space where users can group multiple chats under a single topic. An APK teardown of the latest Google app beta revealed the interface, including options to set a project focus, upload files and organise work. The feature is still inactive and unannounced, and f...

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  Google’s Gemini 3 Reportedly Jailbroken in Minutes, Generates Ways to Create Smallpox Virus

  Google’s Gemini 3 Pro was reportedly jailbroken by a group of researchers recently. As per the report, the researchers were able to break into the Gemini 3-powered artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot within five minutes, and were able to make it generate harmful and potentially dangerous outputs. The demonstration reveals several security flaws ...

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  OpenAI’s ChatGPT Completes Three Years Since Launch: Five Things to Know

  ChatGPT turned three last week, marking an evolution from a text-only novelty to a multimodal AI platform used across industries. It grew quickly and hit major milestones with GPT-4, a freemium model, and by integrating real-time search. The ongoing year also brought agentic tools and advanced models like GPT-5.1 to the platform, expanding ChatGPT ...

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  Poetic Prompts May Trick AI To Help You Build Nuclear Weapon

  The researchers tested the poetic prompts on 25 chatbots like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, where it worked with varying degrees of success on each.

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  Elon Musk Launches 'Following' Feed On X, Grok Will Rank Posts For You

  Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has rolled out a major update to its Following' timeline, introducing AI-powered ranking through its in-house chatbot, Grok. Users will now see posts from people they follow sorted by engagement and relevance.

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  "ChatGPT Not Behind Teen's Suicide": OpenAI Defends Crisis Response

  OpenAI defended itself against a lawsuit accusing ChatGPT of coaching a 16-year-old to kill himself, saying the chatbot directed the teenager to seek help more than 100 times.

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  Microsoft’s Copilot AI Chatbot to No Longer Be Available on WhatsApp Next Year

  Microsoft has announced that its Copilot AI chatbot will be discontinued on WhatsApp beginning January 15, 2026. The decision follows Meta’s updated Business API policies, which restrict AI developers and service providers from accessing or operating through the WhatsApp Business Solution. With this change, Microsoft becomes the second major AI c...

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  OpenAI Introduces Shopping Research in ChatGPT, to Compete With Google’s AI Shopping Tools

  OpenAI has added a new Shopping Research tool to ChatGPT, giving users a visual, interactive way to find products. Available across all major plans, it asks clarifying questions and then curates a list based on user preferences. The feature performs well in detail-heavy categories and offers “nearly unlimited” usage during the holidays, though ...

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  Best AI Prompts to Plan Your Travel and Find the Perfect Holiday Gifts

  As the holidays approach, many are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini for travel planning and gifting ideas. Clear instructions help unlock the best AI prompts, making it easier to build itineraries, compare destinations, estimate budgets and find personalised presents. With some experimentation, users can identify which chatbot delivers r...

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  When AI Tries To Identify AI: Chatbots Fail To Detect Images They Created

  When outraged Filipinos turned to an AI-powered chatbot to verify a viral photograph of a lawmaker embroiled in a corruption scandal, the tool failed to detect that it was fabricated -- even though it had generated the image itself.

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  Microsoft’s New Copilot Actions for Windows 11 Face Scrutiny Over Potential Security Implications

  Microsoft recently announced the gradual rollout of Copilot Actions on Windows 11. It is an experimental agentic capability, available to Windows Insiders, which automates tasks by assigning an AI chatbot to everyday actions. The company, however, cited novel security risks and recommended that this feature should only be utilised if users understa...

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  Google CEO Sundar Pichai Speaks on AI Bubble, Says No Company Is Immune: Report

  Sundar Pichai has acknowledged rising concerns over an AI investment bubble, warning that no company, including Google, would be immune if it bursts. In an interview with the BBC, he compared current market behaviour to the dotcom era and noted elements of irrationality in today’s funding climate. Pichai also cautioned users against blindly trust...