Chatbots and assistants are conversational AI products designed for consumer and workplace interactions. Truncated covers their features, software updates, enterprise adoption, and integration developments.
MarTech Series — AdaptlyPost, a social media scheduling platform, today made its plugin available in OpenAI's ChatGPT, letting users write, schedule and publish posts to 11 social networks without leaving the chat.
9to5Mac — MacPaw, the makers of CleanMyMac and Setapp, have an AI assistant called Eney that’s designed for Apple users. Eney is...
Engadget — The company is hoping to collect feedback on Sonos 27voice to avoid a repeat of its previous app redesign debacle.
AppleInsider — Apple has shared the first beta of iOS 27.3, which brings back the redesigned Apple Health app and several new features for testing. Here's what's new.
9to5Mac — Apple CEO John Ternus was asked about Siri AI’s future, here’s what he said about the company’s plans to improve and expand its assistant.
WIRED — From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
Tech Xplore — Generative AI was so agreeable with users that it could be persuaded to repeat outlandish claims like the Earth is flat. The programming's sycophancy was so strong that it didn't take much pushback to get chatbots and digital assistants to repeat obvious falsehoods, according to University of Cincinnati researchers.
Claude — Smart reports show what work is happening and where, surveys capture feedback on it, and pooled group budgets give each team one shared budget.
the Guardian — I was intrigued by the level of the new chatbot’s training. If I peppered her with questions, would she have answers?
AppleInsider — Officially, the ChatGPT Classic app for Mac is turning off on January 30, 2027. Users are being told to get the latest features and their chat history in the new app. It's just as well because Classic hasn't seen a new model in a while.
XDA — The better free tool isn't actually the one I'd pay for
Business Insider — John Deere's JD AI assistant, unveiled at the Farm Progress Show, helps farmers analyze data swiftly, enhancing decision-making.
The Deep View — Large language models can fundamentally shift the digital advertising space. OpenAI is offering a peek behind the curtain at how. The AI lab published a deep d...
Fierce Healthcare — Healthcare remains difficult to navigate. | A new survey explores how people use general-purpose AI tools for health decisions, and how it’s influencing when and where they seek care.
Fox News — OpenAI's new locked chats feature lets you protect ChatGPT conversations with a PIN, Face ID or Touch ID, but there are key privacy limitations.
WIRED — Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
The Decoder — Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. This could put mentally vulnerable users at risk. Anthropic's Claude, the model its makers anthropomorphize the most, was the only one that consistently refused to play along.
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