Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff announced during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that Tinder is testing a Missed Connections feature in Canada and Australia, which surfaces a weekly curated set of…
Match Group AI, the central technology organization of Match Group, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for its Seoul, South Korea office under legal entity Hyperconnect, with hybrid work and an unp…
Melissa Kite, a journalist, joined the dating app Hinge for research and was banned within 24 hours after making a mild flirtatious comment that the app flagged as inappropriate, despite deleting it. …
Match, the longest-running digital dating service founded in 1993, remains the best option for users seeking long-term relationships according to PCMag's review, earning an Editors' Choice award. The …
Bloomberg reported on July 20 that singles are using ChatGPT and Claude to draft dating messages on Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, a practice called chatfishing, with a 5,000% spike in Google searches and …
A Match Group and Kinsey Institute report finds 26% of US adults and 49% of Gen Z daters have used AI for dating help, including writing messages on apps like Hinge, Bumble, and Match. Match Group CEO…
Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, is launching a new AI-powered matchmaking service called Overtone that has raised $18 million in seed funding from FirstMark Capital, Pace Capital and Match Group. The…
Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, has raised $18 million for his new AI-powered matchmaking company Overtone, which aims to replace traditional dating apps with curated introductions based on relations…
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital for Overtone, a voice-first dating startup that uses AI conversation instead of profiles and swi…
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital, and Pace Capital for his new AI dating service, Overtone, which uses voice and audio to provide highly curated intro…
Cursor CTO David Pan declared on X that Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team size is outdated in the AI era, arguing that AI tools enable smaller teams to be more productive. Pan, who worked at Amazo…
Cursor field CTO David Pan declared the end of Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team sizes, arguing that in the AI era teams have become so small that two pizzas are too much. Pan's comments on X spar…
Grindr CEO George Arison announced plans to make the dating app an AI-native company by imposing AI adoption on staff, hiring an AI tutor, and aiming for AI-generated code despite employee opposition …
A new survey from Match Group found that nearly half of singles aged 18-39 view AI negatively in romantic contexts, and two in five refuse to date someone who uses AI companion apps like Kindroid or R…
A Match Group survey of 1,000 U.S. singles aged 18-39 found that 47% have a negative view of AI in romantic contexts, though 64% see potential benefits. The study reveals widespread disapproval of dat…
A wave of privacy-focused gay dating apps is emerging to challenge Grindr and Sniffies, as users grow frustrated with ads, bots, and corporate monetization. MeetMarket, launched in March by PhD studen…