In Companion, Sophie Thatcher plays a woman who’s nervous as she shows up to spend a weekend at a luxurious lake house with her boyfriend and his friends. That’s enough to set anyone on edge — and a ...

Feminine artificial intelligence is a trope that’s not uncommon in fiction by now, especially in film and on television. Take a hot female robot and a misogynistic male human and you’ve got a typical ...

Warning: big time spoilers for Companion are in play! Earlier in the 2025 movie schedule writer/director Drew Hancock’s comedy-thriller Companion took the sci-fi tradition of humans abusing robots and ...

“Beautiful woman actually robot” is a time-honored tradition, but surely one we’re going to be seeing a lot more of as our society grapples with the real-life rise of artificial intelligence. Our ...

Companion robots enhanced with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate the loneliness epidemic, suggests a new report from researchers at Auckland, Duke, and Cornell Universities. Their ...