Enter the AI companion. These aren't chatbots in the style of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, though many people relate to those products like they would a friend or romantic partner . Instead, the AI ...

The social feed lets users share images, videos, and their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets of their ...

Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI ...

Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million ...

A recent report found about three in four US teens have used AI companion apps – many of which have little to no safeguards ...

A whopping 72% of teens have tried talking to an AI companion, and 52% do so regularly, according to a new survey. But don't worry (yet): The overwhelming majority still prefer in-person friendships.

In the AI sandbox game "EmemeTown," anyone can easily place up to 8 EmemeAI characters in a 3D space and communicate freely with AI-NPCs, even without knowledge of game engines (Unity).

Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform. The games are ...

PUBG and inZoi are getting AI companions described as Co-Playable Characters (CPCs). Krafton, the South Korean company behind both games, announced it was working with Nvidia to bring these AI ...

The AI Vader that Epic made lets users talk to the character using their voice and hear an AI-generated version of James Earl Jones’s Vader voice talk back. It was the “culmination of a very ...