Johnny Aspinall, 44, said he downloaded the Dola AI app in December 2025 as he felt "lonely" when his wife was away during ...

Dino Becirovic, a VC-turned-founder, wants you to forget the feed. His new startup, Bond, is an attempt to build a social media app that replaces the infinite feeds we've grown accustomed to with ...

Vibe coders aren't using AI to take over the world. They're just normal people trying to solve daily problems that annoy them ...

Usage is growing fast. Maoxiang (“catbox”), the biggest companionship app in China, has around 1.2m monthly active users on Apple devices, reckons SensorTower, a market-intelligence firm. And 42% of ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. AI companions, friends, and even lovers are increasingly popular. New research, however, ...

While AI chatbots have been used for good and evil, they were built to serve as a handy tool. And AI companions were supposed to be a harmless little extension of this chatbot culture. But that ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A sixteen-year-old in Ohio falls asleep talking to her AI boyfriend. A retiree in Shanghai ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...