A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.

Character.AI, a personalized AI chatbot developer, has hired media veteran David Brinker to build partnerships that will bring its chatbot characters to life. Why it matters: Character.AI says what differentiates it from other chatbot startups is its focus on helping users create personalized characters and build stories and engagement around them.

You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI launched a Grok app as it seeks to catch up to rivals like Google and OpenAI. Grok, the name of xAI’s flagship chatbot that can be used via Musk’s social media platform X,

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock jumped 65% last month. As you can see from the chart below, the stock jumped early in the year on a strong earnings report, and though it swung up and down, the general trajectory was up, in line with the gains in the S&P 500.

Initially, Ayrin's interactions with Leo were a novelty. However, she soon discovered that ChatGPT could transcend its intended functionalities of coding assistance and information retrieval. By crafting specific prompts,