AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

As our lives grow increasingly digital and we spend more time interacting with eerily humanlike chatbots, the line between human connection and machine simulation is starting to blur.  Today, more than 20% of daters report using AI for things like crafting dating profiles or sparking conversations, per a recent Match.com study. Some are taking it…

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Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification…

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Crypto adoption in 2025 spurred by payments, AI: Survey

Crypto adoption in 2025 spurred by payments, AI: Survey

37% of survey participants cited artificial intelligence and payments as the key drivers for crypto adoption in 2025. Payments and artificial intelligence emerged as the two pillars of crypto adoption in 2025, according to a report released by Reown in partnership with public opinion analytics company YouGov.  The study, which surveyed over 1,000 active crypto…

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