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Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco

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Thursday seeks to shake up conventional online dating in a crowded market. The app, which recently expanded to San Francisco, fosters intentional dating by restricting user access to Thursdays. At midnight, all matches disappear. The idea is that by restricting usage to one day a week, potential matches will be encouraged to set up real-life meetings […]

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As X sues advertisers over boycott, the app ditches all ads from its top subscription tier

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Days after Elon Musk’s X announced it was suing an ad industry group over an alleged boycott of its service, the company is ditching ads entirely from its top subscription tier. On Wednesday evening, the X account announced that its Premium+ subscription would now be “fully” ad-free, leading some to question how this change would

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Feeling Great’s new therapy app translates its psychologist co-founder’s experience into AI

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Seeking mental health support is a complex process, but some founders believe that using AI to formalize techniques like Congestive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help folks who might not have access to professionals. Dr. David Burns, who has over 40 years of experience in the field of psychiatry, has now built an app, Feeling Great,

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Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures

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Natural language AI assistants tend to be excellent English speakers, and passable in other tongues — but if you are one of the millions who fluidly switch between two languages on the fly, they’re stumped. A new AI helper called Silvia, however, understands “Spanglish” just fine, with more language combos to come. The app —

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YouTube is testing a feature that lets creators use Google Gemini to brainstorm video ideas

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YouTube is testing an integration with Google Gemini to help creators brainstorm video ideas, titles and thumbnails. The Google-owned company announced the launch of the new Brainstorm with Gemini feature in a video posted to its Creator Insider channel. A YouTube spokesperson told TechCrunch that the feature is available to select creators as a part

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Newly launched social network Maven loses its co-founders

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Just three months after Maven’s public launch, Kenneth Stanley — the former OpenAI researcher who co-founded the social media platform designed to facilitate serendipitous interactions — is stepping down.  Stanley posted on Maven and X that despite enthusiastic responses to the platform’s launch, Maven “could not achieve the kind of growth curve that investors want

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Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature 

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Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it is testing an AI-powered search feature to assist users in narrowing down their audiobook search. Starting today, select U.S. customers can interact with “Maven,” Audible’s new personal recommendation expert that surfaces title suggestions based on users’ specific requests. A user can use natural

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