CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level.

Users of the platform can join video calls with an avatar of Jesus generated by artificial intelligence. Like other religious AI tools on the market, it offers words of prayer and encouragement in various languages. With the occasional glitch, it remembers previous conversations and speaks through not-quite-synced lips.

If you ask the owners of the four gyro shops in downtown Lincoln how they got started, the story will have two things in common. Gyros, of course. Also, family. 

For decades now, a mostly friendly but sometimes contentious gyro war has been waged at the corner of 14th and O streets between the two original shops: George’s Gourmet Grill and Ali Baba’s. 

Now, the gyro fight has grown into the next generation with two more shops, Pita & Naan and The Sultan’s Kite. Both are run by nephews of the longtime owner of Ali Baba’s. 

After nine days of deliberation, a Los Angeles jury found Google and Meta liable for harms stemming from the design of their social media products on Wednesday and ordered them to pay $3 million in compensatory damages to a plaintiff who said that Instagram and YouTube caused depression, body dysmorphia and suicidal thoughts. 

Meta was ordered to pay 70 percent of damages and YouTube the rest. The amount owed the plaintiff may rise, and the jury will continue to deliberate over potential punitive damages for egregious conduct, per The New York Times.