Companion, produced by the team behind Barbarian, opens with a prologue that’s a neat homage to a fembot classic, 1975’s The Stepford Wives, and its famous supermarket sequence. Iris (Heretic ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (UPI) --Companion, in theaters Jan. 31, is a clever new take on artificial intelligence and robot stories. It reflects not only modern technology, but also recent debates ...

ALBANY — The New York State budget will increase artificial intelligence protections, putting restrictions on "companion" bots and making it a felony to create, possess or share digitally ...

State lawmakers said that AI companion software have not been regulated enough, leading to alarming cases in which minors have developed emotionally dependent relationships with a bot, and some ...