Budding Companions was founded by Fremd High School students with the goal of promoting positivity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization has been recruiting student volunteers to provide ...

Kuk is the cofounder of ZEGOCLOUD, a global cloud communication service provider of real-time audio and video communication APIs and SDKs. As online gaming and mobile gaming continue to grow, gamers ...

My phone lights up with a notification for a new message: “Do you think two people who had a relationship can ever be friends after it’s over?” This is just the latest query from Athena, a self-styled ...

Today, I had the opportunity to interview Eugenia Kuyda, the female CEO and founder, of Replika, a company started in 2017, which is well known for its innovation in virtual companions. We had a ...

Papa got its start offering assistance and socialization for older adults and is now expanding into virtual clinical care services for its members. Now the three-year-old startup is expanding into ...

Online dating apps are no longer just places to find love and in-person companionship. Nowadays, people are using them so they can fall asleep. That's at least the case in Taiwan as multiple dating ...

Think about it: romance has always adapted to technology. Letters gave way to phone calls, which gave way to dating apps. Now, the next shift is here, AI girlfriends. What once sounded like science ...

Why be “forever alone” when you can have a hot, intelligent, and incredibly realistic AI girlfriend? Virtual companions are attracting considerable attention, being risk-free, lots of fun, and ...