RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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If AI is going to help mitigate human loneliness, this sure is an odd way to show it.
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If AI is going to help mitigate human loneliness, this sure is an odd way to show it.
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Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn't remember, Friend is back. And now, it's twice the price. This morning, Friend launched a new ad showing two people talking to their Friend pendants about very personal life problems. It didn't say it explicitly, but the ad showcased a new feature the pendant now includes: a speaker. Before, Friend would only message back to you, but now, it will talk to you, ...
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Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 3 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever.” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from Wired (Jul 30, 2026, 16:00 UTC); the most recent came from Gizmodo (Jul 30, 2026, 20:50 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “ai pendant”.
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AIPROPX — “Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/a3be9e0db6d929572b78dff41e69c105
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