Unlike the AI voices we’ve come to know from ChatGPT, Gemini, or going back to the early days of Siri and Alexa, Sesame is ...

Read.ai is one of the bigger startups in this space and has ambitions beyond meetings — it pitches itself as a platform that ...

In a blog post titled "Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice," the company dropped a demo of its new AI that ...

Adult star Sabien DeMonia is cashing in on the AI companion trend, and now has two digital versions of herself after selling ...

Putting aside the fact that the bots I tested were promoted by Botify AI as “featured” characters and received millions of ...

One complication in our budding romance with AI is that it appears users don’t actually want artificial companions which can ...

In two experiments, East Asians had more positive views of human-chatbot interactions than European Americans did. Might this tendency stem from Eastern religious traditions?

Character chatbots are a prolific online safety threat, according to a new report on the dissemination of sexualized and ...

Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project says companion chatbots are offered as a solution to loneliness and that some ...

every chatbot, and every “next-generation” conversational AI that tech companies love to hype up. But I’ve never encountered anything quite like Sesame. This AI companion isn’t just good ...