Ever wished your AI chat companion could be less “text-only,” more “puts on a dress and steps off the page”? If you’ve ever felt like words alone don’t cut it—especially when you want visual flair mixed with spicy or heartfelt storytelling—you’re in the right place. I dove into a handful of AI chatbots that do

The internet is starting to look less like a buzzing digital town square and more like a battlefield where bots outnumber people. According to a recent Axios report, AI-powered bots are now responsible for nearly half of all online traffic, flipping the script on what the web was originally meant to be—a space for human

The question has probably crossed your mind: if you fed a machine enough selfies, old school pictures, and maybe that awkward headshot you took in bad lighting—could it recreate a “twin” of you? Not just a generic avatar, but something uncannily familiar. That’s the rabbit hole of AI twin generators, and once you tumble in,

The vision of the cloud as a cost-efficient solution captured the imagination of IT leaders during its years of mass adoption. Enterprises expected to save significantly by leveraging the scalability of public cloud infrastructure and paying only for the resources they used. However, as reflected in the 2025 Crayon IT Cost Optimization Report, the reality has

Anthropic has bundled Claude Code, its agent-based command line interface (CLI) coding tool, into the enterprise plans for its generative AI chatbot Claude, in an effort to help streamline developer workflows as well as to take on rivals such as Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot. “Enterprise and Team customers can now upgrade to premium

AI agents are undeniably powerful, but wielding that power responsibly is another story. This month’s picks dive into the real-world dos and don’ts of generative AI: Best practices for using genAI tools for code generation, how to avoid the trap of over-relying on a single tool, and why so many agents fail at understanding business

Google this week released significant AI-powered content generation and consumption updates to its Workspace productivity suite. The company said it has expanded the availability of its Whisk image-generation model to Google AI Ultra for Business customers in 77 countries. Whisk generates new images by referencing uploaded images and text descriptions in a prompt.  Pricing for the Google

Pause to think about it: The PDF is more than 30 years old. Ubiquitous in enterprises, it’s estimated that upwards of 3 trillion are currently in circulation. But the three-decades-old file format, invented by Adobe in 1993, increasingly comes across as static or wonky, particularly as AI-native tools transform the work environment. Adobe is hoping

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers make up close to 80% of the AI bot traffic observed. Meta generated more than half, eclipsing both Google and OpenAI combined.

Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk’s notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbes reports — and some of them get into absolutely unholy territory. The more than 370,000 chats were made public after users clicked a “share” button that created a link to their chatbot convos, unaware