Significant reductions in depressive and anxiety symptoms were seen among nursing home residents who interacted with an ...

The iconic alien from Star Trek made its television debut in the 1967 episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," in which these ...

A major behavioural and technological shift is underway as users increasingly turn to personalised digital companions instead ...

Zoom has launched AI Companion 3.0 with a web interface and agentic tools, while extending limited meeting summaries and AI notes to free Zoom Workplace Basic users ...

The draft Chinese law comes at a time when adoption of AI companion apps is dramatically accelerating. In October, a report ...

What Microsoft’s Copilot Report Reveals—and the Missing Questions About Human Impact and What It Should Measure Next.

First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’ ...

First Voyage has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round from a16z speedrun, SignalFire, True Global, and other investors ...

Screens are winning kids' time and attention, and now AI companions are stepping in to claim their friendships, too. Why it ...

US politician Zooey Zephyr has called on the government to have a “serious talk” about ‘AI girlfriend’ companion apps and the danger they pose to women and girls. The 37-year-old Montanan Democrat ...

Ling Kong of Michelman Robinson examines AI companion laws in New York and California, discussing the states' differing ...