The chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations ...

The friendly whale might be just the design disruptor the artificial intelligence industry needs. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek is making major waves across the tech industry after rising to ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a 37-year-old self-published author and user of the AI chatbot Replika. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, but Insider verified his identity.

Then, on an overcast day barely above freezing, four days before Christmas, Jay discovered a smartphone app called Replika. The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D ...

That, at least, is the future AI companion app Replika is betting on. The company already has millions of users who’ve built relationships with AI companions, and now it’s looking to extend ...