Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments.

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to ...

Sophie Thatcher coolly holds down the center of a horror-comedy that's closer in tone to the entertaining silliness of 'M3GAN' than anything truly disturbing.

Early in "Companion," lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with friends. Iris wakes from a nap and lovingly tells Josh she was dreaming about him. They reminisce about how they first met at the supermarket. All those oranges tumbling onto the floor! Ha ha.

That’s right, Companion isn’t just a cutie little love story painted with the red of heart-shaped candy and blood, but is also a hate-mail valentine to mediocre tech bro losers who have a difficult time checking their entitlement.

What begins as a charming romance in ‘Companion’ rapidly descends into a chilling sci-fi nightmare where love, AI and betrayal collide in

Much fretting is now underway, both in Hollywood and elsewhere, over the possible threat posed by artificial intelligence to humankind’s future wellbeing. This dark comic thriller from the team behind 2022’s Barbarian makes the following contribution to the debate: perhaps the sort of species that would see a need for AI in the first place deserves everything it’s going to get.

Sophie Thatcher’s robot companion is the kind of 1960s woman that every incel dreams of. But things are not that simple.

Starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, writer-director Drew Hancock's movie Companion is one of the most exciting dark comedies of the year.

Sophie Thatcher of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is the lead, a dreamy young woman named Iris who, while shopping for groceries, has a meet-cute with a pleasant young fellow named Josh, impeccably played by Jack Quaid of Prime Video’s “The Boys.

There’s been a few films in recent years about robots going rogue (Like the highly successful M3GAN ), just to make you feel a bit on your toes about the rise of AI- and new horror film Companion is another entry into that genre.

The stars of Saturday Night from left to right: Kim Matula, as Jane Curtain, Emily Fairn, as Laraine Newman, Gabriel La Belle, as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott, as Rosie Shuster, and Matt Wood, as John Belushi