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

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More and more people are turning to artificial intelligence for support, companionship, and even love. There are risks, but some users say it has surprising benefits.

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Tech companies are offering increasingly realistic and immersive forms of AI-based life coaching, friendship, and romance ...

Big Tech's familiar pattern is repeating itself in building first, regulating later, and hoping a sanitized kids' version can ...

Today, we’re dropping the Copilot Fall Release, a big step forward in making AI more personal, useful, and human-centered. ...

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into seven tech companies around potential harms their artificial intelligence chatbots could cause to children and teenagers. The inquiry ...

AI companions are giving people an 'always-on' relationship. Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; RUNSTUDIO/kelly bowden/Sandipkumar Patel/via Getty Images The artificial intelligence boom is ...

Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat exposed intimate conversations and photos, revealing users spent up to $18,000 on AI companions before the breach.

Source: Cyndidyoder83 / Pixabay In Part 1 of this two-part post, "AI Companions for Kids: What Every Parent Must Know," I described the potential misbehaviors and prevalence of AI companions for kids.