Despite the name, there’s no intelligence in an AI chatbot, just a web of formulas that decide how to respond to your question. I attended a talk at RSAC 2025 breaking it all down.

Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article.

Meta AI can search the web for information, translate text, generate images and help the user with programming tasks. Today’s update adds two new personalization features to the service.

Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more helpful in the physical world.