A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.

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.

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 ...

Amazon’s AI-powered assistant, AIexa+, is finally out of Early Access and available to all users in the US through ...

Alexa+ is the newest Prime benefit, giving members in the U.S. a powerful AI assistant accessible by voice, browser, and the ...

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

“We always knew we were signing up for risk because a vodka ad in the Super Bowl is polarizing to a certain degree,” Sara ...

A self-hosted AI assistant that lives in your chat app, Clawdbot promises to do real work, but only if you’re willing to trust it with real access.

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.

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

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 ...

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