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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.
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Comes to Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 arrives in Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot, bringing advanced reasoning, agentic coding, and ...