A US startup, Friend (they have a pretty website btw, friend.com), made a necklace with a mic + LLM that listens, reads emotions, and texts you in the app like a βreal friend.β A Tamagotchi that cares about you.
It raised ~$8.5M, but itβs constant recording, cloud data, and toxic attachment. Lose it, and your friend βdies.β NYC subway ads were quickly vandalized π
I feel like we live in black mirror tv series π
