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.

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.

Google’s chief executive thinks his company has the best artificial-intelligence technology on the market. Now he has to get consumers to care. CEO Sundar Pichai recently told employees he believes the company’s Gemini AI technology has surpassed the capabilities of competitors and he wants the chatbot built on it to be used by 500 million people by the end of 2025,

Ayrin formed an unexpected bond with ChatGPT, customizing the AI to act as her boyfriend. What began as a playful experiment turned into a deep emotional attachment, highlighting the growing trend of AI companionship.

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.

The Meta-owned social media platform Instagram reportedly displays users’ AI-generated images of themselves as part of a new experiment. According to a recent report by 404Media, a user shared a post on Reddit saying that they came across an AI-generated version of themselves where they were shown a slideshow of AI-generated images where they are standing in front of “an endless maze of mirrors.