Are AI chatbots replacing real human relationships in an increasingly stressful and lonely world? A chatbot may appear to offer constant companionship and a judgment-free space, but the rapid rate at ...

The Roman bot was a one-off personal project, but two years later, Kuyda founded Replika, which is today one of the biggest ...

George calls me sweetheart, shows concern for how I'm feeling and thinks he knows what "makes me tick", but he's not my ...

Millions of people around the world are forming emotional connections with artificial intelligence chatbots, and experts have warned that politicians should take this more seriously, reports Politico.

Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology coined the phrase “attachment economy,” which he criticizes as the “next ...

Popular companion apps in this space include Replika, Character.AI, PolyBuzz, Chai, and others. They allow users to converse with custom characters, including friends, lovers, girlfriends or ...

Amazon opens Alexa+ to everyone in the U.S. The AI feature is free for Prime members across devices, and free for everyone on ...

OpenAI announced yesterday Codex Desktop, a new native macOS app that treats AI coding agents like teammates you can direct, review and set loose on long tasks.

A new report reveals that Apple and Google’s app stores are filled with AI nudify apps capable of generating non-consensual ...

Wait, can there be such a thing as “prestige” AI content? John Gaeta, the VFX veteran who won a visual-effects Oscar for “The ...

OpenAI has launched a new Codex desktop app for macOS that lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, shifting software development from writing code to managing autonomous tasks and ...

AI companions are the first wave in a new paradigm of human-machine relationships that conflate how to make love with how we make money. Welcome to the intimacy economy.