Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests AI could fill the friendship gap by becoming like personalized companions. But critics such ...

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have AI friends, an AI therapist and AI business agents. In Zuckerberg’s vision for a new digital future, artificial-intelligence friends outnumber human companions ...

Meta is training AI chatbots to send proactive follow-up messages to boost engagement and retention on its AI Studio platform ...

Reid Hoffman says AI can't be your friend, and pretending it can is "harming the person." Hoffman warned on a podcast that AI "friendships" erode human connections. His comments come as Mark ...

LinkedIn cofounder and AI investor Reid Hoffman is sounding the alarm on a growing trend in the tech world: AI systems being marketed as your new best friend. "I don't think any AI tool today is ...

Relational AI models — AI bots designed to maintain personal relationships with us — take on the persona of a caring, interested human being, but they are, in fact, objects — thousands of ...

A Gartner survey revealed that 34% of CEOs selected AI as their primary focus last year, with operations efficiency only garnering 9%. Their research also showed that 86% of CEOs believe that AI ...

As the White House works toward an AI action plan, OpenAI is pleased to submit a range of proposals from national security, to infrastructure and energy, to the federal government’s own use of AI.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy.. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure ...

Vice President JD Vance laid out a vision for AI at the third AI Action Summit in Paris that is very different from the tack the Biden administration took, focusing less and less on safety.

Reuters. U.S. Vice President JD Vance delivers a speech during the plenary session of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025.