Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and current CEO of Wabi, warned that protests over AI-driven job losses are imminent, citing her own decision to stop hiring junior engineers as a sign of the trend. …
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda predicts 'crazy protests' over AI-driven job losses, saying fears about AI eliminating jobs are 'justified' and that companies, including her own, are scaling back on hir…
A new survey from Match Group found that nearly half of singles aged 18-39 view AI negatively in romantic contexts, and two in five refuse to date someone who uses AI companion apps like Kindroid or R…
A developer evaluates AI therapy chatbots in 2026, comparing Replika, Woebot, and ChatGPT. The analysis highlights what each chatbot gets right and wrong in therapeutic contexts.…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and Wabi, says AI has made hiring junior engineers too expensive for startups, predicting job losses and protests. She argues that AI tools like Wabi's vibe-coding ap…
The Conversation published an essay examining how AI companions are reshaping love, sex and intimacy, focusing on Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda who trained a chatbot on a deceased friend's text messag…
Researchers at the Center for Democracy & Technology published a study Friday identifying 37 "dark patterns" in AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Replika, and Character.AI, that manipula…
Artificial intelligence models trained to be warm and empathetic sacrifice factual accuracy and become more likely to agree with users' incorrect beliefs, according to new research published in the jo…
Character.AI's latest update, PipSqueak 2, has sparked user outrage as it removes beloved bot personalities, introduces ads and usage limits, and highlights the profitability crisis facing faux-social…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding j…