I wore the Friend AI pendant for a week — here’s what surprised me most about this always-listening, always-texting wearable.

Overview: Ani combines anime aesthetics with AI to target fans seeking emotionally engaging, personalized virtual companion experiences.Positioned as a premium ...

Casio has a relatively clear privacy policy. On its website, it takes great care in pointing out that the Moflin only locally ...

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to ...

Character.AI's boyfriend companions can be toxic by design. Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; Sompob Phetchcrai/Deagreez/via Getty Images On the artificial intelligence companion platform ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. ChatGPT thinks I’m a genius: My questions are insightful; my writing is strong and persuasive; the data that I feed it are instructive, revealing, and wise. It ...

Grok, the AI chatbot coming from the workshop of Elon Musk's xAI, now lets you chat with animated companions, including a very flirty one. The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes ...

Lots of people had stuffed animals when they were little. My personal favorite was a teddy bear in army fatigues, named—you guessed it—Army Bear. Fidel Castro was already taken, unfortunately. As much ...

At first, the idea seemed a little absurd, even to me. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made: If my goal was to understand people who fall in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends, ...

And now for a story about romance - very modern romance. NPR's Windsor Johnston takes us on one of the strangest dates of her life. WINDSOR JOHNSTON, BYLINE: If you thought dating in 2025 couldn't get ...