Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" — ...
Tom Cruise reportedly played a major role in the implosion of his brief romance with actress Ana de Armas. The Valley cast ...
People using Replika's AI friend app are mostly 35-plus, the company's CEO said. Replika offers AI avatars for companionship. Some users have formed deep relationships with them. The CEO said the app ...
The study published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans surveyed 29 Replika users, revealing profound emotional investments in their AI companions. Participants, aged between 16 and 72, ...
Earlier this month, Italy's Data Protection Authority (the "Garante") fined Luka Inc., the US company behind the Replika AI chatbot, €5 million (about $5.6 million) for serious data privacy violations ...
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the rise of voice-based and anime-style chatbots could be "dangerous." ...