{"id":654444,"date":"2026-08-24T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/654444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:49:15","slug":"sony-to-offer-drivers-cute-ai-agent-for-self-driving-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/654444\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to offer drivers cute AI agent for self-driving age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automobiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Friendly character will help with everything from navigation to brainstorming<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260824N Sony AI agent Main\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sony created Wichef, a talking\u00a0rabbit-sheep character, especially for AI applications. (Photo by Keigo Yoshida)<\/p>\n<p>KEIGO YOSHIDA<\/p>\n<p>August 25, 2026 05:02 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Sony Group plans to offer an in-car artificial intelligence agent featuring an original character as early as fiscal 2027, aiming to carve out a position in the emerging market for in-vehicle entertainment amid the transition to autonomous driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Automobiles Friendly character will help with everything from navigation to brainstorming Sony created Wichef, a talking\u00a0rabbit-sheep character, especially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[34766,27344,291,23737,51947,18,19,17,38401,150420,4517,82],"class_list":["post-654444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-age","tag-agent","tag-ai","tag-cute","tag-drivers","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-offer","tag-self-driving","tag-sony","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117152460404349585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}