The field of Conversational AI is moving towards increased interactivity and effectiveness in various domains, including education, politics, and cultural heritage sites. Recent developments have shown that conversational AI systems can increase political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search, and can be used to support informal learning and enhance visitor engagement in museums and art galleries. Furthermore, advancements in question answering and hallucination evaluation frameworks have improved the accuracy and faithfulness of large language models. Noteworthy papers include: A-SEA3L-QA, which presents a fully automated self-evolving adversarial workflow for long-context question-answer generation in Arabic. AraHalluEval, which evaluates the hallucination of Arabic and multilingual large language models on critical natural language generation tasks.