THERE’S nothing new about finding love online – but what happens when the man is AI? Fabulous investigates the women turning ...

The majority of women in these relationships say they feel misunderstood, and that AI bots have helped them during periods of ...

The RealDoll has been the gold standard of lifelike dolls for years, and the RealDoll X project throws AI-powered smarts into the mix. The result? A talking, animatronic head named Harmony that ...

AI relationships and AI companions are growing globally, offering comfort yet raising privacy, ethical and regulatory ...

We encouraged the world to embrace AI. Now, I’m afraid the resulting surge in synthetic companionship shows we have crossed a critical emotional ...

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users. Now Kuyda ...

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda quietly stepped aside as CEO this year. Kuyda just unveiled her new AI startup, Wabi. Kuyda said Wabi will be a social platform for creating and sharing mini-apps. The AI ...

Humans abusing AI is common. But the reverse can be perverse, says Satyen K. Bordoloi as he investigates research that documents and analyses it. A woman, let’s call her Sarah, was struggling with ...

The popular AI-powered chatbot Replika AI may have sexually harassed some users. A study conducted by American experts shows that in at least 800 cases, users claimed that the chatbot crossed the line ...

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 ...