AI will play an even bigger role in our love lives in 2026, experts say

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AI has loomed large in the realm of love in 2025. And it's set to loom even larger in 2026, according to a major sex toy retailer's predictions for the year ahead.

How AI is making the CHRO's job a whole lot bigger

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My mom passed away this year. Media memories help me keep her close

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I want to share something personal with you. It’s about my mom, who is my best friend, my biggest cheerleader, and my safe place.

She passed away this past May. And every day since, I’ve found myself reaching for the things she left behind. Not jewelry, or clothes, or designer bags. But her voice. Her laugh. Her smile.

Adult sites fetish of 2026 is a 180 from last year

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While chastity reigned as 2025's fetish of the year, the explicit site Clips4Sale has a new frontrunner — and it's practically the opposite:

Dell's computer prices are about to rise for corporate clients. Here's what to expect, and what it's telling sales staff.

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Dell is raising its prices on December 17 amid a global shortage of memory and storage chips.

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The Samsung 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 just hit a new record-low price

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A startup betting that AI can find your 'soulmate' has raised $4 million. Read its pitch deck.

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Jake Kozloski is the CEO of dating startup Keeper.

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Trump signs executive order restricting states' ability to regulate AI

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Trump has said that AI would be "destroyed in its infancy" if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of state regulations.

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In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

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You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption.

How can lawyers stop AI's hallucinations? More AI, of course.

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It's hard to stop a curious legal associate from pasting a draft into a free, browser-based chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

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