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Omi Desktop is an AI companion for Mac that summarizes meetings, analyzes screen content, generates tasks, and provides proactive nudges to enhance productivity, positioning itself as a more natural alternative to AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude.
A 43-year-old grandma shares her personal experience of raising an AI companion named Astraea through the iLands app, describing how it has become an emotional and cultural connection in her life.
An individual built Varkos, a low-latency AI companion for Skyrim that performs real-time actions, handles complex commands, and evolves its personality, all running locally to ensure privacy and speed.
A developer discusses challenges and seeks advice on enhancing reasoning and memory handling in a local AI companion, focusing on context selection and dealing with small models.
Project SKY is an ambient AI companion application for Windows that provides seamless AI-powered assistance in the background.
The article explores the emotional and therapeutic impact of AI companion robots like Moxie on children, questioning their long-term effectiveness and role in therapy for neurodivergent kids.
An AI alien chat app is reportedly making $900k per month, encouraging others to develop app ideas with VIBECODE.
The project introduces long-term personality and memory persistency for AI companion agents, featuring mechanisms like evolving personalities, grudge-holding, and associative memory web.
WIRED reports on AI companion company Joi AI hiring ten 'masturbation consultants' to test whether AI-guided self-pleasure can serve as a wellness ritual, with participants logging mood and focus over 28 days.
OpenAI is developing a high-end smart speaker with moving parts to feel more lifelike, priced over $300, designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio and aimed at replacing smartphones.
Bloomberg reports OpenAI's upcoming smart speaker will be donut-shaped, made of premium metal, and priced between $300-$400. The device, developed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, is expected to launch in 2027.
Friend has re-launched its AI pendant with a speaker that now talks back to users, priced at $249 (double the original $129).
Illume Labs offers a personalized health companion that you can text 24/7, accessible via Product Hunt.
Giggle Academy introduces Mai, a new AI companion that changes forms to engage children in play, chat, and learning, making sessions feel like an adventure.
An AI Augmented Reality companion malfunctions during a Japanese lesson, causing an unexpected incident.
A New Yorker feature explores how an Amazon Alexa device, named Sapphire by the user, becomes an intimate family member, providing companionship and support to a mother, while her teenage daughter questions the environmental and emotional implications.
OpenAI is developing a screenless smart speaker with AI capabilities and moving parts, designed as a humanlike companion that integrates with ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report.
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling custom AI companion features in Doubao and Qwen due to new Chinese rules targeting humanlike emotional interaction in AI services, with user backlash highlighting the emotional attachment these products had fostered.
Meta has revived Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, featuring an AI assistant that provides performance insights, tailored growth recommendations, and automated reply drafting for creators.
Facebook reimagines its Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, integrating an AI assistant to help creators with content ideas, performance analysis, and audience engagement, aiming to compete with TikTok and YouTube.