In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend, Roman Mazurenko, was hit by a car and died. In the months after, Kuyda’s grief took a quintessentially modern form: obsessively reading the digital record her ...

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda quietly stepped aside as CEO this year. Kuyda just unveiled her new AI startup, Wabi. Kuyda said Wabi will be a social platform for creating and sharing mini-apps. The AI ...

Luka, the creators behind the enormously popular AI friendbot called Replika, is releasing a new app meant specifically for dating and strengthening relationships. The new app, called Blush, is ...

The creators of the Replika AI “companion” app are successfully getting their ads in front of the eyes of the lonely — and the way they’re promoting it is pretty cringe. If Twitter kvetching is any ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (Reuters) - After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. The 47-year-old turned to ...

Replika is an AI chatbot that can offer romantic companionship to its users. Replika is backed by Y Combinator, which was once run by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI created ChatGPT. Insider spoke to ...