Friend AI pendant

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Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Friend, a consumer AI hardware startup, launched a new $249 AI pendant featuring integrated speaker-based voice replies, doubling the price of its original $129 necklace and adding an optional $10/month subscription — signaling a pivot toward premium monetization and richer multimodal interaction.

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Techmeme

Jul 30, 2026

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01 Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription

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