AI companions are the first wave in a new paradigm of human-machine relationships that conflate how to make love with how we make money. Welcome to the intimacy economy.

A self-hosted AI assistant that lives in your chat app, Clawdbot promises to do real work, but only if you’re willing to trust it with real access.

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody ...