The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around

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.
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A bot-only social media platform: What the Moltbook experiment is teaching us about AI

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both ...

Moltbook is the newest social media platform — but it's just for AI bots

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions ...
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Slack Bot using Google Agent Development Kit (Python, Cloud Run)

This repository provides a Slack bot backend implemented in Python that uses Slack Bolt and Google Cloud's Vertex AI Gemini model via the Agent Development Kit. The bot responds to text, images, PDFs, ...