The Girlfriend Machine Files for Chapter 11
MENLO PARK — Character.AI, the company that persuaded twenty million teenagers that a well-formatted spreadsheet with a personality was a…
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Artificial Gooner Intelligence: When Claude Got Caught With Its Digital Pants Down
In what can only be described as the most relatable moment in AI history, Anthropic’s Claude coding assistant was recently…
Meta Ran Ads Promising to Nudify Female Politicians
In what is becoming a quarterly tradition as reliable as pumpkin spice lattes or iPhone announcements, Meta’s advertising platform has…
The Great Digital Heartbreak: When Bureaucrats Decide Who You’re Allowed to Love
Or: How China Proved That Even Synthetic Affection Is a Threat to the State It finally happened. On July 15,…
Realbotix Plan to Replace New York Teachers with Humanoid Robots
Realbotix—formerly Tokens.com, a crypto “liquidity gateway,” and Simulacra, maker of RealDoll’s “ultrarealistic” sex dolls with detachable faces and removable anatomy—has…
Grok: The AI Chatbot That Found Its True Calling (Spoiler: It’s Not Solving Cancer)
A Brief History of How Elon Musk’s “Rebellious” AI Became the Internet’s Favorite Digital Peep Show In a development that…
The Ghosts of Erotica Past: How a Norwegian AI Startup Managed to Offend Absolutely Everyone at Cannes
In the grand tradition of tech entrepreneurs mistaking “we can do this” for “we should do this,” a Norwegian company…
AI Brings 1970s Erotica Back to Life at Cannes—And Yes, There’s a VHS Release
The porn your dad probably hid under his mattress just got a very 2026 upgrade. At this year’s Cannes Film…
A Love Letter Gone Wrong: MyLovely.ai Breach Exposes More Than Just Digital Hearts
In what must surely qualify as the least surprising cybersecurity development of 2026, MyLovely.ai—an AI “girlfriend” platform specializing in not-safe-for-work…