Loneliness is rising, and many are turning to AI companions for comfort. But what do we lose when technology soothes the ...

David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments. Credit...Mark Harris Supported by ...

A wearable companion is a brilliant idea — in theory. By Amy X. Wang See them out there — those eight billion strangers? For close friendship to blossom between any two people, empirically speaking, ...

The Friend necklace promises constant companionship and understanding. But this isn’t friendship—it’s a soulless, cynical way to prey on our loneliness and fear. An advertising campaign for the ...

Friend, a tech start-up that’s selling an AI companion in the form of a pendant, has become the subject of arguably the year’s most controversial ad campaign (and in the wake of recent denim ...

An ad campaign for a wearable A.I. companion has blanketed New York City, starting conversations and inspiring vandalism. An ad campaign for a wearable A.I. companion has blanketed New York City, ...

If you haven’t already heard of Friend, the company that makes a $129 wearable AI companion—a plastic disk, containing a microphone, on a necklace—you probably also have not seen Friend’s recent ad ...

New York City subway ads for a new pendant by AI startup Friend were quickly defaced by droves of angry residents. The company’s latest gizmo, a necklace designed to constantly listen to you via a ...

After stumbling with 2021's 'The Story of My Wife,' the Hungarian director finds her poetic, peculiar voice again with this beguiling, wildly original ode to better living through botany. Any film ...

Dear Eric: I have a friend I have known since third grade. She lives in another state. Recently, I went on a trip with three of my other friends in the state where this friend lives. She is a very ...

On Thursday, Instagram rolled out a new feature called the Instagram Map. The addition to the platform, which Meta announced on Wednesday, has people concerned—and angry—about potential safety ...