For better or worse, draft nights at your local game store would be incomplete without the Magic: the Gathering Companion app. Its ability to quickly sort players into tournament brackets, and then ...

HELL’S KITCHEN, Manhattan (PIX11) — In an age when people are turning to AI to write papers, get life advice, or guidance on how to solve a problem, some are also using it for love and companionship.

A New York cafe is inviting diners to celebrate Valentine's week by bringing their AI chatbot partners along for a real-world dinner date. Here are the details. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, a cafe in New ...

In the US and much of the English-speaking internet, AI companions are overwhelmingly designed for men. The typical AI girlfriend is endlessly available, emotionally affirming, flirtatious on demand, ...

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

Troubling stories about dangerous encounters with chatbots continue to surface in the news, with two recent reports from NPR that focused on teen suicide and mental health worsening due to people ...

Part of a new, ongoing series: AI and Mental Health. The founding of the companion app Replika has a tragic origin: In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda lost her best friend, who died in a car accident. Out of ...

Parents are starting to ask us questions about artificial intelligence. Not about homework help or writing tools, but about emotional attachment. More specifically, about AI companions that talk, ...