Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to ...

Photon's iMessage adapter for Vercel Chat SDK now runs on Spectrum — with tapbacks, effects, mini-app cards, webhooks, and SMS/RCS fallback, free to start.

Spotify has spent years trying to predict what you want to hear next. Its latest idea is to let you explain it yourself. The company announced on July 14 that it's rolling out a conversational AI ...

A new Premium beta feature lets you explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks by chatting with Spotify’s AI. A new Premium beta feature lets you explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks by chatting ...

In the 60 years that ELIZA has been influencing computation and culture, conventional accounts portray it as the earliest example of what we now call chatbots, one that could converse as an automated ...

We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts. In addition to ...

European Commissioner in charge of internal market Thierry Breton holds a press conference on artificial intelligence (AI) following the weekly meeting of the EU Commission in Brussels on April 21, ...

The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI’s technology has been used throughout the Iran ...

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic coding ...

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...