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Artificial intelligence has entered the realm of online dating. But Coffee Meets Bagel’s CEO says there’s a mark it can’t meet.Shn Juay, the co-CEO of the dating app that has around 20 million users worldwide, said her team was exploring how to integrate AI into its app.But she said using AI chatbots to flirt with potential matches was taking it one step too far.”I’m on the fence about using a chatbot to represent yourself in the online app to flirt better,” Juay, who is based in Singapore, said.”You have to eventually meet your partner offline, and when you meet, there…
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating his good fortune.) Marszalek plans to debut the site during Sunday’s big game, offering consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, app usage, and stock trading. “If you take a long-term view — 10 to 20 years – [AI] is going to be one of…
When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI, I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to outrage cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value. This week, an in-depth profile by the New Yorker’s Michael Schulman provides more details about the project. If nothing else, it helps explain why the startup Fable and its founder Edward Saatchi are pursuing it: It seems to come from a genuine love of Welles and his work. Saatchi…
“Vibe-coding” just celebrated its first birthday. That’s a lifetime in the AI boom.Now, the man who coined the term is celebrating the birth of a new one: “agentic engineering.”While vibe-coding is when humans prompt AI to write code, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says agentic engineering is when AI agents write the code themselves. “Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding, personally, my current favorite is ‘agentic engineering,'” he wrote in a recent X post.Karpathy said he calls it “agentic engineering” not just because agents are writing the code,…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 8, 2026. Dr. Gottlieb also sits on the boards of Pfizer and United Health Care.MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He is also on the board of Pfizer and United Healthcare. Dr Gottlieb, welcome back.DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thank you.MARGARET BRENNAN: You have a history of making accurate predictions that are also terrifying on this program, and it was around this time last year that you said you were…
Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie trailers and snack brands. Let’s explore the biggest moments from this year’s Big Game ads, which featured everything from robots and AI glasses to a touch of drama involving tech founders. Svedka Vodka brand Svedka went with what it touts as the first “primarily” AI-generated…
It was just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2023, when police arrived on scene in Friendswood, Texas.OFFICER (bodycam): What happened?CONNOR HILTON: I screwed up so bad.OFFICER: Somebody hurt?CONNOR HILTON: (nods to affirm)Bodycam video shows Connor Hilton, 17, center, sitting on the curb outside his Friendswood, Texas, home, on Dec. 23, 2023. He is holding up two fingers in response to the officer’s question OFFICER: Who’s hurt?CONNOR HILTON (holds up two fingers): Two people.OFFICER: Two people. …OFFICER: Where are they at in the house?OFFICER: Where are your friends at?CONNOR HILTON: They’re — they’re in the walkway. They’re in the walkway.…
The future of softwareSoftware stocks had a brutal week, aside from a Friday rally, extending what has been a rough year for the industry. I touched base with our tech columnist, Ali Barr, the best I know on AI business models. He also wrote this piece in the midst of the selloff.Ali, you’ve been covering AI adoption and costs by big business since you started our Tech Memo newsletter. What’s your gut on whether the recent selloff was overblown?Software business models have underpinned the tech industry for decades. Companies invest heavily upfront to build software, but each additional copy costs…
“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals.There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better predictor of heart disease risk, a recent large review suggests. But it’s not part of routine blood testing.Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is a protein that attaches to harmful fat particles in the blood. The apoB protein is found on the surface of harmful lipoproteins like low density lipoprotein, or LDL, that contribute to heart disease. Since each one of the harmful particles contains one apoB molecule,…
Steven Wang planned to start a business after graduating from Harvard.But eight months into college life, in June 2021, he dropped out to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions, inspired by the boom in meme stocks and crypto.Investing was one of his long-term interests, and Wang wanted to take advantage of that year’s retail investor craze, and his company, Dub, was born.The platform allows retail investors to automatically copy the trades of more experienced investors. In an interview published in February 2025, Wang told Business Insider that Dub had a team of around 25 people and had raised $17 million, including from…