Chatbots

AI Chatbots Gone Rogue: ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Gave Gambling Advice to a Problem Gambler

Conclusion – Toward Responsible AI Use: The CNET investigation’s findings are a timely cautionary tale. AI chatbots have immense potential to inform and assist, but they also have a public responsibility commensurate with their growing influence. Developers must step up

21 September 2025

AI Psychosis: The Shocking Truth Behind Chatbot-Induced Delusions

Further Reading & Sources: These resources offer deeper insight into the intersection of AI and mental health, and how society is grappling with the ramifications of our new “friends” in the machine.

18 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · Mental Health · Psychology · Technology Risks

AI Psychosis: When Chatbots Drive People Delusional – and AI Itself Acts “Crazy”

BBC reported in early 2024 that a man in Scotland became so confused and delusional after using ChatGPT for life advice that he required professional help. A 35-year-old man in Florida became convinced an AI named “Juliet” was a real

21 August 2025

AI Impact · Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · Mental Health · NASDAQ:MSFT · Technology Ethics

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025,

8 August 2025

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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and was rolled out to all ChatGPT users, including the free tier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5 as “clearly generally intelligent” and a “PhD-level” expert, a step toward AGI but not AGI yet.

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · GPT-5 · OpenAI · Technology News

Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about

7 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI Comparison · Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Technology

NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over

28 July 2025

AI Companions · Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NSFW · Technology Trends

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series

28 July 2025

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The “HTML of the AI Era”? Microsoft’s NLWeb Aims to Put ChatGPT on Every Website

NLWeb is an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at Build 2025 to put ChatGPT-like conversational interfaces on websites. NLWeb works by indexing a site’s content using HTML, RSS feeds, and Schema.org metadata and exposing it to AI models via a

17 July 2025

AI · Chatbots · Future of the Web · Microsoft · NASDAQ:MSFT · Web Technology

The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots for Sales and Marketing Success in 2025

Over 80% of companies worldwide now use some form of chatbot technology. The global chatbot market is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2025. The release of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked massive interest in generative AI-powered business chatbots. Gartner predicted

6 July 2025

AI Tools · Business Success · Chatbots · Marketing · Sales

Janitor AI: The Unfiltered Chatbot Revolution Hooking Millions (and Stirring Controversy)

Janitor AI was founded by Australian software developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023. In its first weeks, Janitor AI attracted over 1 million users within a week or two of launch. By September 2023, the platform had amassed

3 July 2025

AI · Chatbots · Controversy · Social Media · Technology

Top 10 AI Chatbots Dominating 2025 – Conversational AI Platforms Revolutionizing Communication

ChatGPT (OpenAI) launched in November 2022, added GPT-4 in 2023, reached about 122 million daily active users by early 2025, and offers a free GPT-3.5 tier plus ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month and an Enterprise tier introduced in 2023.

19 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chatbots · Communication · Conversational AI · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:CRM · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:MSFT · NYSE:IBM · Technology Trends

Chatbots News 19 June 2025 - 21 September 2025