An NHL owner eyes NBA expansion, Kate Middleton gives health update, and the CEO of an AI companion company says her bots aren't just ... in which two users’ AI avatars talk to each other ...

The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D avatar and an upbeat, down-for-anything texting style. Over time, as the bot learned ... Male or Female? Jay clicked female.

Users would have an AI avatar programmed with their "interests, likes, dislikes, even conversation habits", said Glamour, and this bot would chat with other users' bots to see if "the two real ...