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AI: The Teddy Bear You'll Never Outgrow

How AI companions are rewriting human attachment

Dec 23, 2025
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What Happens When Your First Heartbreak Is A Robot?

In the video below, a little girl in China is sobbing. Wires spill from her broken toy. “Dad said you can’t be turned on again,” she tells the dying device.

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