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Emotional Technologies Inc. and U.S.-based Robutler Corporation are adding the emotion analysis AI engine KDE (Kansei Driven Engine) to the Robutler app platform.
Read the original →Suicide rates among teenagers remain at record-high levels. Of suicide attempters taken to emergency medical centers, 76% could not tell anyone they wanted to die, and 86% could not talk to their family.
Read the original →Maria Theodosiou says AI can imitate empathy and craft persuasive messages but cannot replace the personal ties and trust on which shipping depends.
Read the original →Up Lab Inc., based in Fukuoka, officially released the chat service "bonnon" on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The service lets users talk with realistic AI characters. Users choose how the story develops.
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