Have you heard about chatbots and want to learn more about what they're used for? Read on for everything you need to know.

In the fall of 2024, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, I sat alone in a dim room, holding my cellphone’s flashlight over the cursive correspondence of the American poet and ...

After beta testing in recent weeks, Google Messages today officially announced custom chat themes and backgrounds on Android. Requiring RCS, the goal is to “make every conversation feel uniquely yours ...

Summer blockbusters — including the smash hits Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — have busted plenty of blocks this year. American cineplexes are on track to rake in more ...

Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system. Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls. The productivity boost comes with serious privacy tradeoffs. Today, Anthropic announced ...

A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents — the constant need to rebrief the AI on things it already knows. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced ...

This summer, and this year, further shows the importance of protecting the theatrical window as the domestic annual box office has crossed the $7 billion mark according to Rentrak. Those are the best ...

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including ...

Meta’s experimental vibe-coding gaming app, Pocket, is now rolling out to everyone in the U.S. The app, which arrived quietly last month in the test market of Brazil, allows people to generate small, ...

Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack. The Salesforce-owned chat ...

Visual Studio Code 1.134 is now available, adding side-by-side chats, improved agent session navigation, full chat search, and better HTML previews. Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.134 under ...

Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA, SlashGear, MakeUseOf, Laptop Mag, and Android Police. She's been writing professionally since she was ...