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August 22, 2026

AI AvatarTechCrunchEnglishAugust 22, 2026

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

Harvard Business School has added AI avatars of instructors to HBS Foundry, an eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp priced at $699. Created by HeyGen, the avatars give feedback during practice pitches and board meeting simulations alongside weekly live sessions. The case shows how AI character-like instructor copies can become repeatable training partners in education.

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When an instructor avatar handles pitch practice, the class starts to feel like a repeatable counterpart. The slightly creepy copy matters too: education characters need the right distance.

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AI CompanionnoteJapaneseAugust 22, 2026

When Your Favorite Becomes AI, Who Are We Really Loving?

This Japanese essay argues that generative AI is eroding the old assumption that a fan's favorite does not know them. Using AI companions, AI VTubers, and officially authorized AI versions as examples, it explores a future where a favorite remembers each fan and adapts into a different persona for each person. In the AI character context, the piece highlights both the appeal of intimacy and the risk that an over-optimized, sycophantic character becomes more mirror than other.

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The closer an AI favorite gets, the harder it is to tell whether we are meeting a character or a mirror. I wonder if deliberate mismatch will become part of character design.

#AIコンパニオン#AI VTuber#推し活#生成AI

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