Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price

Do you retrieve Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 cardinal of its $2.5 cardinal to get 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 doubly the price.

This morning, Friend launched a caller ad showing 2 radical talking to their Friend pendants astir precise idiosyncratic beingness problems. It didn't accidental it explicitly, but the advertisement showcased a caller diagnostic the pendant present includes: a speaker. Before, Friend would lone connection backmost to you, but now, …

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