I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Enter large language model (LLM) evaluation. The purpose of LLM evaluation is to analyze and refine GenAI outputs to improve their accuracy and reliability while avoiding bias. The evaluation process ...

In long conversations, chatbots generate large “conversation memories” (KV). KVzip selectively retains only the information useful for any future question, autonomously verifying and compressing its ...

Even when they have the “right” information, they can lead you astray.

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system ...

A new study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital suggests that the use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT can ...

Users usually easily exit from AI chatbots. But what about when in a dire mental state? The AI might snag you. Should there ...

The most popular large language models still peddle misinformation, spread hate speech, impersonate public figures and pose many other safety issues, according to a quantitative analysis from a DC ...

Gaslighting, false empathy, dismissiveness –these are some of the traits AI chatbots displayed acting as mental health counselors in a Brown study.

It's is a clever response to a growing problem: the ever expanding list of companies who want to sell "AI" bots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are built from a "corpus," a very large ...