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Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.
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Nothing gives best friend energy quite like silicon and some 1's and 0's. Fresh off the heels of Meta’s dystopian AI influencers modeled after real celebrities, the social networking platform Instagram is reportedly working on its own customizable artificial intelligence friends.

For years, tech companies have been on a mission to create a wearable that will “kill”—or replace—the smartphone.

