The rise of artificial intelligence companions represents one of the most intimate intersections between humans and machines. Unlike chatbots that perform tasks or answer questions, AI companions are designed to simulate friendship, empathy, and emotional understanding with a high degree of emotional realism. This means they can understand and respond
The week brought a mix of powerful advances and intensifying concern about governance in the AI space. On the capability side, one of the major announcements came from Google: its new quantum-computing algorithm, dubbed “Quantum Echoes,” was reported to outperform classical supercomputers by a factor of about 13,000 and
For over two decades, Google Chrome has dominated how we experience the internet. It became the window through which billions accessed the digital world, a tool so embedded in daily life that few questioned its supremacy. But technology moves in cycles, and each era of dominance eventually meets disruption. That
At the recent AI4 conference in Las Vegas (August 11th – 13th), Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “grandfather of AI”, delivered his remarks on designing AI with “maternal instincts,” with the goal that these super-intelligent systems see humanity as their “baby,” ensuring benevolence towards us rather than replacing us. While I