AI companions are trying to communicate care, affection, reassurance, attention, intimacy and presence.

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 ...

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out. The alien in question is an animated chatbot known as a ...

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Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A sixteen-year-old in Ohio falls asleep talking to her AI boyfriend. A retiree in Shanghai ...