A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into human sentences with 95% accuracy — an extraordinary consumer device that has secured $1 million in funding despite zero independent scientific proof that it actually works (opens in new tab)

If you have ever stared at your dog while it stared back at you, and felt an irrepressible urge to know what it was actually thinking, a Chinese startup believes it has built the device you’ve been waiting for your whole life. The product is called PettiChat. It’s a small AI-powered collar that the company […]