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When Chatbots Grow Up Part V – The Aftermarket for Feelings
By late 2026, the surprise wasn’t that people bonded with AI. The surprise was how fast companies learned to meter that bond. Once it became (… read more)
All things AI related.
By late 2026, the surprise wasn’t that people bonded with AI. The surprise was how fast companies learned to meter that bond. Once it became (… read more)
Context: The Psychology of Synthetic Companionship By the time The Ethics of Desire Machines had ignited debate among technologists and ethicists, another conversation was happening (… read more)
Love as a Service: The Monetization of Affection In the history of technology, the most profitable inventions have always sold convenience first, companionship second. The (… read more)
Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, (… read more)
There’s a soft click when a system crosses from tool to companion. The outputs haven’t changed much—still words, still probabilities—but the way we read them (… read more)
Is there anything real left on the internet? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore deepfakes, scams, and cybercrime with the (… read more)
The moment was bound to arrive. After years of treating conversational AI like a polite guest in a parlor—careful, neutral, and perpetually PG-13—OpenAI has announced (… read more)
Las Vegas has never been shy about rewriting the rules of spectacle, but what’s happening inside the Sphere — that gleaming digital orb planted just (… read more)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow adult AI conversations. What happens next? For now, we get Sora 2 updates and Google using AI for actual science, making progress towards cancer cures. Google also has Gemini 3 on deck for what seems like a pretty big jump in AI capabilities. Oh and they happen to be working on fusion as well. But for us, they’ve update their AI video model VEO to 3.1 and we take it for a test run.
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