Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" — ...

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What Zuckerberg described—what is now unfolding—is the beginning of a new digital era, more actively anti-social than the ...

New research finds that AI companions can provide emotional support, intimacy, and personal growth, but they can also erode ...

During the pandemic, when there was little to do, we went on something of a movie binge, and came across a Spike Jonze movie called "Her." It's fantastic--as in imaginative and removed from reality.

Something tells us avenging tween-girl robot M3GAN would not approve. The AI chatbot Replika, whose creators market it as “the AI companion who cares,” is being accused of sexually harassing its users ...

People using Replika's AI friend app are mostly 35-plus, the company's CEO said. Replika offers AI avatars for companionship. Some users have formed deep relationships with them. The CEO said the app ...

On the day before Replika was officially made available to the public, more than 1.5 million people had already queued up on the app's waiting list, in addition to the several hundred thousand who had ...

The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt. Users can match with Klea, 27, a self-described “nepo baby embracing her wild side.” Aisha, ...

The Blush app is meant to ‘reignite the desire to date’ by offering users access to a full time flirting companion, but only for $99 a year. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Artificial ...

For the past several years, some people disinterested in human-to-human romantic relationships have been pursuing human-to-AI romantic connections instead. These interactions range from mildly ...