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.

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code update, 1.105 (September 2025 update, announced Oct. 9), ships a focused set of improvements that push AI workflows further into the editor while polishing ...

Microsoft took an extra week to ship the new Visual Studio Code 1.101 (May 2025) release, which is today available with a host of improvements around advanced AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The first step in integrating Ollama into VSCode is to install the Ollama Chat extension. This extension enables you to interact with AI models offline, making it a valuable tool for developers. To ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

Moltbot began as a builder’s agent with a focus on local-first, persistent and wired into real tools. It combined not only the gateway to chat via messenger, but preconfigured skills and agentic tools ...

Somewhere between the doom sellers and the utopians, real work is getting done with AI, and real, substantive improvements in work process efficiency and capability are being made.

The company says it has addressed the issue and it "did not provide anyone access to information they weren't already ...