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People too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends. They have little to keep them company but the ...

Think you could use a few more friends? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI will do the trick. In a recent interview with ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks with Databricks Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer ...

AI can't solve America's loneliness crisis, argues this opinion piece, as technology can’t replace the genuine human ...

Loneliness and social disconnection are serious problems. But can AI really be a solution? AI may offer companionship in a ...

Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People too often find themselves isolated ...

Mark Zuckerberg thinks maybe it’s time you send an AI bot a friend request. Last week, the Meta CEO sat down for an hour-long conversation with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel and argued that it’s only a ...

Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People of every age now too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends and little to keep them ...

A clip of Mark Zuckerberg talking about AI companions quickly went viral ... “Nothing would solve my loneliness like having 12 friends I made up,” TV writer Mike Drucker joked on Bluesky.