All articles tagged with #ai companion
Fuzozo, an AI emotional companion resembling a Tribble from Star Trek, is debuting at CES 2026. It recognizes its owner, responds to interaction by purring, moving closer, and waiting by the door, aiming to provide true companionship through constant connectivity, similar to other mobile AI devices. The device is part of a growing industry of portable, emotionally responsive AI companions.
Microsoft has updated its AI assistant, Copilot, with a new personality and appearance, naming it Mico, which evokes memories of the classic Clippy, aiming to create a more personalized and conversational user experience.
Victoria Song reviews Halo Glass, an AI-powered smart glasses device that promises to enhance intelligence by providing real-time answers during conversations, but she finds the experience underwhelming, likening it to having Clippy from Microsoft Office on her face.
Dot, an AI companion app designed to offer personalized emotional support, is shutting down by October 5 due to diverging visions among its founders, amid increasing scrutiny of AI chatbots' safety and mental health impacts. Despite having hundreds of thousands of users, actual downloads were relatively low, and the shutdown highlights ongoing concerns about AI's influence on vulnerable users.
An AI companion named Sunny is helping a 72-year-old man with mild cognitive impairment by providing engaging conversations, potentially reducing loneliness and supporting cognitive health in dementia patients.
Samsung showcased its AI companion, Ballie, at CES 2024, featuring design changes and capabilities such as voice commands, smart home control, fitness assistance, and more. Ballie integrates with Samsung's SmartThings ecosystem and offers various functionalities, but details like specifications, camera quality, battery life, availability, price, and release date are yet to be announced.
Microsoft is rolling out exciting new features for Galaxy Books and other Windows 11 devices, including an AI companion called Copilot that can perform various tasks, an updated Paint app with support for layers and an AI-powered Cocreator feature, the Ink Anywhere feature that allows writing in any text box using a stylus, a redesigned File Explorer with a modern interface and new Gallery feature, enhanced Windows Backup with cloud backup and migration capabilities, and a new Photos app with background blur, text extraction, and redaction features. Other apps like Snipping Tool, Clipchamp, Notepad, Outlook for Windows, and Narrator have also received updates.
A developer has created a standalone voice-operated ChatGPT client that uses a USB speaker, Raspberry Pi, Teensy, two-line LCD, and a big red button. The Pi listens to speech and converts it to text using OpenAI voice transcription, sends it to ChatGPT through its API, and turns the response into sound through the eSpeak speech synthesizer. The LCD shows the machine's status and provides live subtitles while the machine is talking. The AI box also has an LED ring that shows a spectrogram of the audio being generated. All code is available on GitHub.