The AI Tamagotchis are coming

Sam Altman onstage astatine OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Image: Hayden Field / The Verge

While AI has made plentifulness of inroads connected people's phones and computers, it's mostly failed successful dedicated devices. But implicit the adjacent year, 2 large AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, volition effort to alteration that. And they're seemingly betting connected a akin path: investigating appetite for carnal hardware with their cutesy bundle agents.

"Hardware is hard" is simply a tech manufacture mantra. Dedicated AI devices similar the Friend and Humane AI Pin person inspired chiefly vexation and backlash, which whitethorn lone worsen arsenic nationalist choler against AI grows. Meta and OpenAI, however, are some pushing ahead. OpenAI is moving with famed ex-Apple decorator Jony Ive and pla …

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