What Microsoft’s Copilot Report Reveals—and the Missing Questions About Human Impact and What It Should Measure Next.

Continuing its lean into agentic artificial intelligence, Zoom Communications Inc. today introduced the next generation of its AI Companion and its virtual workspace. AI Companion 3.0 designed to help ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into AI “companions” marketed to adolescents. The concern is not hypothetical. These systems are engineered to simulate intimacy, to ...

Samsung Electronics Co. aims to apply artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its entire product lineup under a vision to ...

The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet, but ...

The phrase “Let’s hop on a Zoom call” has become part of everyday language, shorthand for virtual meetings that defined an era, from remote classrooms to boardrooms. Zoom rose to household-name status ...

Don’t look now, but the wonks have come out with a way to measure how well AI entities do at forming relationships with people. Specifically, researchers at Hugging Face have come out with something ...

US politician Zooey Zephyr has called on the government to have a “serious talk” about ‘AI girlfriend’ companion apps and the ...

The draft Chinese law comes at a time when adoption of AI companion apps is dramatically accelerating. In October, a report ...

The technology is changing the way many people meet and form relationships but some experts believe it may do more harm than ...