New York, New York - January 15, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Silverback AI Chatbot has announced continued development and

In response, Character.AI announced last year that it would bar teens from open-ended conversations with AI bots, instead limiting them to new experiences like one that generates stories using available AI avatars.

The bestselling author of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" says self-help is "kind of cooked" thanks to AI. So he cofounded his own self-help chatbot, Purpose, rather than be replaced by it.

Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.

Senator Ed Markey sent a letter this week to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other tech leaders expressing concerns over the use of ads with AI.

The AI upgrade to Siri, Apple's creaky old voice assistant, has been brewing for some time. Now we have more details, courtesy of a report from Apple super-scooper Mark Gurman. As expected, the new version of Siri — codenamed Campos — will use a fine-tuned version of Google Gemini for its on-board intelligence.