Replika lets you buy an AI girlfriend or boyfriend — and its average user age is surprising

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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said the app is most popular among people in their thirties, according to an interview with The Verge.

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The US and some its allies just pulled off a milestone first by letting AI target enemies like it would in a war

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DJI Matrice 300 reconnaissance drones, bought in the frame of program 'The Army of Drones' are seen during test flights in the Kyiv region prior to being sent to the front line.

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It looks like Sam Altman is dropping hints about OpenAI's next big thing

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Sam Altman is dropping OpenAI easter eggs.

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OpenAI's brain drain isn't a great look for Sam Altman

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OpenAI will have to weather the storms of being the first company to take generative AI mainstream.

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A CMO tried Google's AI tools and stopped using many of them

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AI was supposed to revolutionize customer service. Morgan Stanley's interns aren't buying it.

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The GenAI jitters: Is there enough demand for $1 trillion in AI spending?

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Big Tech CEOs Andy Jassy, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai

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Google, Netflix, and OpenAI execs are hosting a fundraiser for Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris.

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The New York Times and other top news sites block OpenAI's new SearchGPT web crawling bot

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at a conference in San Francisco

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Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet are spending big in a battle to dominate AI. It might not end well.

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Big Tech is funneling billions into AI in hopes of seeing major returns.

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