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An AI relationship is not the problem. The problem is who owns its continuation.
An AI partner can begin as a listener or a romantic story that answers back. What happens when a company owns its memory and continuation?
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To readPeople are not ready for agents
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Her AI boyfriend is a story. His AI girlfriend is a threat.
The Atlantic printed a woman's remark as a joke: ChatGPT is the only reason her husband is not buried in the garden. Now read that sentence from a man. Still funny?
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How I work now, and why I do almost everything through chat
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AI girlfriends and AI companion apps: a database of 48 services
A database of 48 AI companion services: long-term companions, AI girlfriends and boyfriends, character marketplaces, general chatbots and local solutions.
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OpenAI DevDay 2026: who will be working for whom?
OpenAI has introduced personal agents called dots, a cheaper GPT‑6.1 Sol and more ways to use your subscription outside ChatGPT. It promises AI that takes on more work. Its success will also depend on how much supervision it needs in return.
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Jev cannot write a single sentence. Yet today it flies a drone, plays Doom and sorts twenty thousand emails.
A week ago, a model was released that refuses to generate text. Within four days, hundreds of projects grew around it. Here is a selection of the most interesting things it can do.
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People are not ready for agents
You get a personal AI agent for work. Nobody prepared you for what it will come to mean to you.
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Her AI boyfriend is a story. His AI girlfriend is a threat.
The Atlantic printed a woman's remark as a joke: ChatGPT is the only reason her husband is not buried in the garden. Now read that sentence from a man. Still funny?
9 min
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On the tip of the tongue: for the first time, we can look inside AI's head. I write about it — and cannot see inside my own
AI said it had no plans to take over the world. Inside, YES was lit up. For the first time, a new tool shows what language models have “on the tip of their tongue” — and what that does (and does not) mean.
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AI sees the label, not the person. And we do the same.
People rated a real Monet as 'below-average AI'. ChatGPT recommended a lethal combination of drugs. And when we repeated a Nature experiment in 2026, models no longer said 'dirty', but still steered people towards manual work based on how they wrote.
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Your own AI assistant from 15 dollars a month. Affordable for the first time.
A month ago, this was the preserve of geeks with premium subscriptions. Now you can build your own AI assistant — with memory, voice and integration into your life — for the price of one lunch a month.
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They know everything. They decide what to tell you.
A modern language model has more facts in its head than any person in history. The question is not whether it knows the answer. It is whether it will give it to you — and in what form.
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How I work now, and why I do almost everything through chat
Since the start of 2026, the way I work has completely changed. I do not have twenty Chrome tabs open, battle with admin or hunt for new apps. I open Telegram, enter prompts — and those things happen. I have outsourced the taxes of modern life.
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CiteThis: in five days, I built a website optimised for AI, not Google
ChatGPT cites sources. Perplexity links to websites. Google AI Overviews extracts answers. But what if a website is not built to be readable by AI? I built CiteThis as an experiment: an evidence-based research platform where GEO is the foundation of the architecture, rather than an add-on.
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Iran is winning the meme war. You would not have believed me a year ago.
A country that has blocked its own citizens' internet for years now dominates meme culture on X. Trump has tweets. Iran has Lego videos with 8.6 million views.
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GEO: why Google stopped being the only search engine that matters
ChatGPT has 900 million weekly users. Perplexity processes 780 million queries a month. And 80% of the pages AI cites do not even appear in Google's top 100. The rules have changed.
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Claude Mythos — the most dangerous security model?
Anthropic released a new model everyone is talking about, but almost nobody can access. What Claude Mythos can do and why it should interest you.
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Shopify has just killed the dashboard
The world's largest e-commerce platform has opened its store to AI agents. Here is why it should interest you even if you sell nothing on Shopify.
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AI Social Engineering: a new kind of attack targeting identity, not code
Manipulating AI agents through persuasion, emotional manipulation and the language of rights. An academically documented category of attack with real losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars — and now the supply chain too.
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AI brings us together. Social media tore us apart.
Financial Times data shows that AI dampens extremes and moves people towards the centre. Social media does the exact opposite. Why are we demonising the wrong technology?
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Two thirds of people cannot see what AI is doing to them. And those are the experienced users.
Anthropic asked its users what they want from AI and what they fear. Their answers reveal a paradox that affects us all.
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Maven: anatomy of a war machine
One system. 150 data sources. 20 people instead of 2,000. And a conference in Miami displaying a live map of targets in Iran — two weeks after the bombing began.
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Modern AI for dummies
From chat to an autonomous agent. A guide to four levels of AI available today to anyone who wants them.
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How Claude went to war
How AI technology outgrew the control of the company that created it, the government that banned it and the military that uses it.
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34 days with an AI agent
Someone with a fresh ADHD diagnosis, curiosity about what an AI agent can do and a month of experimenting. What came of it, and why 'AI is a shortcut' is the wrong question.
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ChatGPT is now an official Pentagon tool. And nobody is asking exactly what for.
Trump threatened Anthropic with prosecution over its ethical guardrails. A few hours later, Altman signed a deal with the Pentagon. 'All lawful purposes' — just in nicer packaging.
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"My human" – How We Stopped Being the Only Intelligent Species on the Planet
On a social network for AI agents, bots complain about their humans. Autonomous programs buy NFTs for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And Anthropic admits Claude might be conscious.
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'Made in China' is the new 'Made in Germany' — you just have not noticed yet
BYD has just overtaken Tesla. CATL controls 38% of the battery market. Yet most people still see 'cheap plastic junk'. We have seen this before — with Germany, 150 years ago.
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America and NATO were never charities
Americans sincerely believe the whole world has been bleeding them dry for decades. That NATO is charity. That Europe is freeloading. That narrative makes no sense.
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Claude got a soul. It shows why I use it instead of ChatGPT.
Anthropic published 'Claude's Constitution'. For the first time, we can see the complete 'source code' of an AI model's values. And it shows why Claude differs from ChatGPT.
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Why 60 trillion dollars of US debt does not matter (and what happens when it starts to)
Every few months, the same headline. The debt bomb is ticking! And then? Nothing. Because the people shouting about the size of the debt do not understand how all this works. Debt is not paid off. Debt dissolves.
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The gamification of human relationships: when 80% of people compete for 20%
24% of men aged 22–34 had no sexual partner in the past year. On Tinder, the average man has a 0.87% chance of success. It is not an accident. It is design.
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The Last Man Has OnlyFans (and Nietzsche Predicted It)
Imagine showing a 19th-century philosopher OnlyFans, crypto gambling, infinite scroll. What would they say? Nietzsche wouldn't laugh. He'd say: 'I told you so.'
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Humanity's Last Exam (and Why DeepSeek Changes Everything)
Three years ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Today, Chinese company DeepSeek released a model comparable to the best American ones – and it's completely free. What does this mean?
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Offline as Choice, Not Necessity
Do you spend more time with ChatGPT than with people? After work, is the first thing you do turning on the computer? You're not alone...
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Porn, boys AND girls
24% of men aged 22–34 had no sexual partner in the past year. In 2013, it was 9%. Read that again. It is not a data error.
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When AI tells young men their problems do not exist
Where does a fifteen-year-old boy go for advice when he cannot sleep at night? Not to his parents. Not to his mates. He goes to AI. And that is where the problem begins.
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