Chatbots

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  "Most Empathetic Voice": Neurodivergent People Find New Support In AI Tools For Social Navigation

  For Cape Town-based filmmaker Kate D'hotman, connecting with movie audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others. "I've never understood how people [decipher] social cues," the 40-year-old director of horror films says.

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  WhatsApp for Android Said to Be Testing Real-Time Voice Chats With Meta AI

  WhatsApp is said to be testing a new feature for Android users that will allow them to have real-time voice conversations with Meta AI. As per a feature tracker, the new artificial intelligence (AI) feature is now rolling out to select beta testers, and allows users to either directly initiate voice chat or switch to it while within the chatbot’s...

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  Teens Turning To AI For Friendship But Experts Warn Of Mental Health Risk

  The 15-year-old asks ChatGPT for guidance on back-to-school shopping, makeup colors, low-calorie choices at Smoothie King, plus ideas for her Sweet 16 and her younger sister's birthday party.

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  Humans Beat ChatGPT And OpenAI At Top Math Olympiad

  Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time.

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  ChatGPT Users Reportedly Send More Than 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily

  ChatGPT reportedly handles more than 2.5 billion prompts daily. As per the report, OpenAI revealed the volume of messages its chatbot and servers process for the first time. The artificial intelligence (AI) company also highlighted the number of messages that are sent from the US, as compared to the rest of the world.

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  Gemini, ChatGPT Achieve Gold Medal-Level Scores in International Math Olympiad

  Gemini and ChatGPT both participated in this year’s International Math Olympiad and achieved gold medal-level scores in the competition. Google DeepMind highlighted that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot officially entered the competition and was able to solve five out of six questions, following the test's rules, without any human interac...

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  The End of the Search Era: How AI Is Quietly Breaking the Internet’s Traffic Model

  According to Similarweb (via The Economist), the global search traffic fell by 15 percent year-on-year (YoY) as of June 2025. Older data also show that the no-click-through rate to news websites grew from 56 percent in May 2024 (this was when AI Overviews was launched), to almost 69 percent in May 2025.

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  What Is Baby Grok? Musk's xAI Announces Kid-Friendly AI Chatbot After Companion Controversy

  Elon Musk announced a new Grok app that xAI is creating to cater to kid-friendly content.

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  OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Launched, Can Perform Complex Tasks on a Virtual Computer

  OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent, which will be baked into the company's chatbot, on Thursday. Dubbed ChatGPT Agent, it is a general-purpose agent which gets its own virtual computer to browse the web and find information, as well as an integrated development environment (IDE) for coding. The San Francisco-based AI firm said...

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  ChatGPT Will Soon Shop Online, Make Meal Planning And Presentations

  OpenAI is rolling out new options for chatbot ChatGPT to carry out a variety of increasingly complicated tasks on a user's behalf, part of its push to bring so-called AI agents to the mainstream.

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  Microsoft Upgrades Copilot Vision With Desktop Share Feature, Adds Support for Voice Mode

  Microsoft announced two new upgrades for Copilot Vision on Tuesday, which are aimed at increasing its usability. The Redmond-based tech giant is introducing a new Desktop Share feature that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to analyse the user’s entire desktop and all the active apps, and assist users with various tasks.

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  Meta AI Vulnerability That Could Leak Users’ Private Conversations Fixed: Report

  Meta AI reportedly had a vulnerability that could be exploited to access other users’ private conversations with the chatbot. As per the report, a researcher found the bug late last year and informed the Menlo Park-based social media giant about it. The company then deployed a fix to the issue in January, and rewarded the researcher for finding t...

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  OpenAI Reportedly Working on ChatGPT Support for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint-Compatible Files

  OpenAI is reportedly developing new productivity tools for ChatGPT that could reduce users’ reliance on Microsoft’s Excel and PowerPoint. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working on adding support for Microsoft’s spreadsheet and presentation file formats, so users can both create and edit these f...

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  Gemini in Gmail Vulnerable to Prompt Injection-Based Phishing Attacks, Researcher Finds

  Gemini in Gmail is vulnerable to prompt injection-based phishing attacks, a researcher demonstrated. As per the researcher, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that offers features such as email summary generation and email rewriting can be manipulated into displaying phishing messages to users. This vulnerability poses a significant risk, as ...

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  Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Connect With Notion, Canva and Figma to Complete Tasks

  Anthropic is now expanding the list of apps and platforms its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can connect to. In May, the AI firm introduced Integrations, a new feature that made use of the company’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect to remote servers across the web and desktop apps. On Monday, the AI firm added a directory of tools th...