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.

Microsoft is bringing Copilot to the Windows 11 taskbar and File Explorer. The update turns search into a reasoning engine that pulls answers from your calendar, emails, and local files without ...

Conversational chatbots were the first chapter of AI. Today is the beginning of the second. We are excited to introduce Copilot Tasks — AI that doesn’t just talk to you, but works for you. This is a ...

What if your browser could do more than just browse? Imagine it becoming your personal assistant, organizing your tasks, translating videos in real-time, and even helping you collaborate with your ...

Microsoft’s Edge browser includes a relatively new Copilot mode that brings AI directly into new tabs–but you’ve got to activate it first. Once enabled, Copilot adds an AI input window to new tabs, ...

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

M365 Copilot Chat was summarizing your emails, whether you granted it access or not. This bug affected Sent and Draft folders.

Microsoft rolled out new radiology-specific capabilities for its clinical AI assistant, Dragon Copilot, at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2025 Annual Meeting, expanding the tool’s ...

Athenahealth is collaborating with Microsoft to offer ambulatory providers more options for ambient artificial intelligence solutions as AI scribe adoption rapidly grows. In partnership with the tech ...