California passed a law in 2025 that starts in 2026 and is now active. It regulates AI companions. What does it cover? Is it ...

December 23, 2025 - For years, AI "companions" lived in a regulatory gray zone. Highly personal, always available, and largely ungoverned, these systems — built to remember what you say, check in on ...

SALT LAKE CITY — How many times have you said, “Hey Alexa…” to play your music, dim the lights or change the temperature in the house? Or asked Siri to find the best coffee shop near you? Who HASN'T ...

Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren’t the biggest stars of CES 2026, they’ve become more than just noise and are signaling how AI is apparently leaving our screens ...

This is what real AI looks like: a companion. It learns your habits. It helps without demanding attention. It anticipates ...

At Stanford for eight hours on Monday, representatives from Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft met in a closed-door workshop to discuss the use of chatbots as companions or in ...

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MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.