Bengaluru: Millions of people in China woke up this week to a breakup they didn’t choose. Their AI boyfriends and girlfriends were gone—deleted by government order. China’s new AI companion rules took effect on 15 July and the country’s biggest AI apps have pulled the plug on their most personal feature.Beijing’s motives go beyond mental health. It also wants people to stop dating machines and start having babies, the Wall Street Journal reported. Matt Sheehan, who studies Chinese AI at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the paper that regulators worry about people forming deep emotional relationships with chatbots…