Studio Ghibli's timeless animation, exemplified by 'Castle in the Sky,' teaches that love and human connection are paramount, not just tech...

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According to a report from IT industry body Nasscom, the global AI companion market is estimated to have touched $28 billion in size this y...

New Yorkers are reacting strongly to a huge AI ad campaign in the subway. The startup Friend spent millions on posters, but many people are...

Doctors and researchers are sounding the alarm over “AI psychosis,” a disturbing pattern where people spiral into delusion, mania and even ...

A Chinese man, Jiang, divorced his wife to be with an AI avatar. He became obsessed with the digital woman. His family intervened and revea...

About three in four US teens have used AI companion apps such as Character. ai or Replika. ai. The study, which surveyed 1,060 US teens age...

Growing concerns are emerging about the mental health impact of AI platforms like ChatGPT. Reports indicate potential risks, including decr...

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to use AI to combat the loneliness epidemic, proposing AI companions as a solution. Amid growing c...

The studies, conducted using GPT-40, OpenAI’s multimodal model released in May 2024, raise questions about the emotional consequences of hu...

Happy Tuesday! The Payments Council of India has urged the PMO to reinstate the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI and RuPay debit card pa...

Realbotix, a US-based tech firm, has introduced Aria, an AI robot designed to replicate human-like interactions. With a price tag of ₹1.5 c...

Eric Schmidt cautioned about AI companions. He highlighted the risks for young people. AI relationships can increase loneliness. They can a...

Noam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...

There is a heightened sense of loneliness in the post-pandemic world, but can startups solve the problem with companion bots and call-in se...

Technological breakthroughs can take people by surprise because they haven’t seen anything like that before. We stand at the brink of a new...

The President and CEO of Samsung’s STAR Labs told ET in an exclusive interview that he created Neon because human beings are unable to conn...