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If you talk to a chatbot every night before you sleep and feel less alone, what exactly has been helped? The feeling of loneliness, or the fact that you do not have enough people in your life? Over the last few years, researchers have started to test this more directly instead of treating it as a purely speculative question. A series of experiments on AI companions found that spending time with a friendly chatbot can reduce reported loneliness and increase a sense of social s

Image Credits: Generated with Gemini You probably have all three icons on your screen by now. ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. The question in 2026 is not which one is “best.” It is what job each one should do in your daily stack. Let us treat them as three different coworkers, not three versions of the same chatbot.   OpenAI says ChatGPT now has over 900 million weekly active users, with more than 50 million paying subscribers and around 9 million business accounts. T

Curiosity used to require some friction. You wondered about something, tried to remember it, failed, looked it up, and maybe got distracted along the way by something else equally interesting. Now you type a question into a chatbot, it answers immediately, and you move on. The answer is faster, the process is cleaner, but something gets lost in the efficiency. The impulse to wonder, to test, to explore beyond the first response starts to shrink, and it happens so gradually th