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I'm Imran Shake and let's get your Tuesday Daily Crunch underway with three big tech headlines.

Do AI chatbots packaged inside cute looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids.

Well, that's how the company is selling these AI-powered kiddie companions are marketing them.

But the New York Times, Amanda Hess, has some reservations.

You see, she recounts a demonstration in which

Grem, one of the offerings from startup Curio,

tried to bond with her.

Curio also sells a plushy named Grock

with no apparent connection to the Elon Musk-owned chatbot.

Hess writes that this is when she knew, quote,

I would not be introducing Graham to my own children, unquote.

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