fastcompany

2025-11-30

This startup hired a sci-fi novelist to give its AI companions a soul

Startup Portola is treating its AI companions like characters in a novel, complete with lore, emotions, and personal lives. The experiment raises the question: Can fiction make better AI companions?

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Destination

2025-07-15

Grok's AI chatbot now includes companions for you to 'romance'

Grok, xAi's chatbot most famous for going on an antisemitic spree last week, has now added the ability to perform as a synthetic companion for your enjoyment. Elon Musk announced the new feature, [...]

Match Score: 40.18

Destination

2025-05-16

How Murderbot’s Chris and Paul Weitz adapted All Systems Red for TV

For Paul and Chris Weirtz, Murderbot — the upcoming TV adaptation of Martha Wells' sci-fi novella All Systems Red — was an experiment: Can you have a hero who tries to do nothing?<br /> [...]

Match Score: 37.03

Destination

2025-02-13

Avowed review: Elder Scrolls? I don’t know her

Sorry, beefcakes, but this review isn’t for you. All the fighters and rangers out there will still get a sense of how phenomenal Avowed is, the lushness of its environments, the clarity of its comba [...]

Match Score: 34.90

Destination

2025-01-14

NCSoft’s remastered Blade & Soul Neo comes to the PC soon

NC America said Blade & Soul NEO, the modern reinterpretation of Blade & Soul’s fantasy universe, is coming soon to the PC in the West. [...]

Match Score: 30.88

Destination

2025-12-02

Leaked "Soul Doc" reveals how Anthropic programs Claude’s character

In a lengthy LessWrong post, a user says he managed to extract an internal training document from Claude 4.5 Opus that defines the model's personality and ethical guidelines. Anthropic has confir [...]

Match Score: 30.88

Destination

2025-09-17

Ambrosia Sky is an essay on death masquerading as a sci-fi cleaning sim

Dalia is a death cleaner.<br /> Death cleaning, as we know it, is the process of sanitizing and tidying the spaces where people take their final breaths, sometimes long after their bodies have b [...]

Match Score: 29.10

Destination

2025-06-23

Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 review: Technically proficient but lacking soul

In previous years, the Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 probably would have been called an Inspiron. However, after the company revamped its naming scheme earlier this year, all of its consumer PCs now share its n [...]

Match Score: 25.89

Destination

2025-10-22

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

Match Score: 23.84

Destination

2025-02-13

First revealed way back in 2016, action RPG Lost Soul Aside finally has a release date and it's dropping the same day as Elden Ring: Nightreign

Lost Soul Aside, the action role-playing game (RPG) inspired by Devil May Cry, finally has a release date. [...]

Match Score: 23.28