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What happens when a human falls in love with AI?

There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app.

Not so anymore. Online dating is so mainstream that you’re an outlier if you haven’t met your partner on Tinder, Grindr, or Hinge.

We bring up online dating to show just how quickly conventions around romance can change. With rapid adv

File your taxes in 10 minutes? TurboTax says it’s possible with AI-powered ‘express lanes’

As some industry leaders call for a “pause” on AI developments, many companies are going forward full-speed ahead, implementing new AI tech into existing products and services.

That includes TurboTax, one of the largest tax-preparation service providers in the country. TurboTax is experimenting with a new AI-driven “express lane,” which allows some customers to file their tax returns in as little as 10 minutes. TurboTax’s parent company, Intuit&#x2

Tinder’s CPO on Tinder Vault, the company’s anticipated $500 per month offering

Tinder is pushing forward with its $500-per-month subscription offering, tentatively called “Tinder Vault.”

The feature is still in the early days, says the company’s chief product officer, Mark Van Ryswyk. Tinder could still pull plans to release it, or at least drastically cut prices. It’s still unclear as to when Tinder would want to release the offering broadly.

“I’m always like, ‘I want it yesterday.’ And, of cou

Why is Gen Z always talking about Target on social media?

Kallie Davis and Jenna Wood are the self-proclaimed queens of Target. Their TikTok, Best Of Target, started as a pandemic project in April of 2020, before Bullseye even had an account. “We both naturally love Target.” says Davis, who is in her early twenties. “The brand is something that we always had a passion for. I mean, on a Friday night, I would love to go walking in Target with my husband or even by myself. It’s kind of like therapy to shop there.”

Is aging a disease? Some experts say it should be treated that way, and pricey ‘longevity clinics’ agree

Trying to slow down or reverse the effects of aging is nothing new. Whether it’s taking a good old-fashioned walk in the park or injecting your furrowed brow with chemicals to freeze your face, attempts to hold onto youth can vary from the everyday to the extreme. And now, aging isn’t just viewed as a normal part of life. It’s being looked at like a “disease.” And while the idea is controversial, it’s found some traction. The World Health Organization

Aurora’s self-driving truck tech is one step closer to hitting the road

Self-driving truck startup Aurora announced on Monday that it has reached its “feature complete” milestone. The long-awaited benchmark means the company believes it has its core technology in place and can focus on fine-tuning its autonomous trucks as it races toward making them completely roadworthy, a step it calls “Aurora driver ready.” It expects to begin commercial deployment in 2024, starting with the highway corridor from Dallas to Houston.

With th

Hampton is creating a safe space for tech CEOs

Last fall, John Timmerman, founder and CEO of digital marketing agency Good Monster, had a problem. He’d lost three clients through no fault of his own—acquisitions, startups running out of funding, the list goes on—but now he was responsible for the decision that came next. Lay off good performers or keep them even though the company was already losing thousands? Timmerman texted the group chat. Or, rather, in this case, he asked his cohort at Hampton, a new community fo

How collaboration can end the climate crisis

Mayor Sadiq Khan has bold ambitions for the City of London to become zero-carbon, zero-pollution by 2030. However, to truly hold ourselves accountable and hit these massive 2030 goals, it’s about ensuring that cities work together to collectively address an issue head on that impacts us all. Cities like New York and London need to work in unison to scale and grow climate change programs and climate tech innovators to help the greater good.

Here are a few actionable ways citie

Goodbye Silicon Valley, hello . . . Arlington?

As firms from startups to Big Tech continue to lay off workers by the tens of thousands, the Pentagon and its defense contractors see a once-in-a-generation chance to fill their ranks with tech talent—and newly unemployed workers aren’t opposed to the industry switch.

According to a recent survey by Morning Consult, one-third of tech workers say they are more likely than they were a year ago to consider working for the military-industrial complex, and nearly half of te

15 useful ChatGPT prompts for startups

We aren’t quite at the point where artificial intelligence can run an entire business, but the new wave of AI tools is getting close. That is especially true for nascent startups, where AI tools can be invaluable in the race to get a new company up and running. Tools like ChatGPT can help perform tasks ranging from writing blog posts, researching competitors, finding a domain name, and even practicing for media interviews.

So many startups are about disruption, and tools such


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