{
  "id": 18050,
  "title": "Friend AI Pendant Gets a Voice, and the Price Jumps to $249",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/friend-ai-pendant-gets-a-voice-and-the-price-jumps-to-249",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-07-31T13:30:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Gadgeteer",
    "slug": "the-gadgeteer",
    "url": "https://the-gadgeteer.com/2026/07/31/friend-ai-pendant-voice-wearable-249-price/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An AI necklace that couldn’t talk has spent two years defining itself through controversy instead of conversation. This week that changes. Friend AI Pendant, the always-listening AI pendant from founder Avi Schiffmann, now ships with a built-in speaker and a spoken personality, and the price has nearly doubled to match. Schiffmann announced the update, calling […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}