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)
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)
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)
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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