AI-powered pet companion toys are all the rage in Chinese markets, blending emerging tech with emotional responses.

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AI will serve humanity only if we endow our creations with moral restraint rather than mathematical optimization.

Common Sense Media recommended that parents engage with their children directly and guide them towards more traditional ...

Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.

A near-tragedy forced this author to confront a broken education system, and the role AI could play in fixing it.

On Jan. 29, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it would be retiring GPT-4o (along with the models GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) on Feb. 13. OpenAI says it made this decision because the ...

New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned.

Pope Leo XIV issues a stark warning against the rise of AI lovers, cautioning that digital companions threaten to 'invade and occupy' our intimacy and erode the fabric of society.

Alexa, will you marry me?” When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reported in 2016 that over 250,000 people had proposed to their ...

AI companion toys dominated CES 2026, with Chinese firms leading a fast-growing market focused on emotional connection and long-term user engagement.