Stanford University research shows that in 2021, more than 50% of new U.S. couples met online, making smartphones one of the most powerful matchmaking technologies ever built, according to an opinion …
Bumble has abandoned its founding women-first rule, a retreat from the identity that set it apart since 2014, as the online dating industry, estimated at nearly £10 billion globally, bets on AI to rev…
Leon Liao founded Checkie-AI, an AI reality check tool that analyzes contracts and dating profiles for inconsistencies, after two unrelated incidents on the same day prompted him to build a prototype.…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance feature across 13 U.S. states after users complained the tool automatically altered profile pictures without consent, changing smiles, skin tones, and ha…
Gen Z-focused dating app Ditto, co-founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, replaces swiping with AI matchmaking and has 150,000 signups, with about 20% of matches leading to dates. Th…
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…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool in the United States after users complained it altered their appearance, with one user calling it 'extremely violating' and 'scary.' The feature, wh…
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. …
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported it altered their appearance without consent, including changing a toothless smile to one with teeth and modifying facial featur…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported the feature automatically edited their profile photos in unsettling ways. Jeni Rubin told NewsNation that the tool altered her …
Ditto, an AI matchmaking service for college students founded by University of California, Berkeley dropouts Eric Liu and Allen Wang, operates entirely within iMessage to arrange dates without swiping…
Happn, a location-based dating app, has overhauled its premium tiers, added AI tools, and removed its desktop version, but its mobile app remains a strong contender with clever features like video ver…
World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a strategic WLD token sale with a 12-month lockup, led by Pantera Capital, to expand World ID infrastructure as AI transforms the internet. Over 39 millio…
World Foundation raised $52 million in a locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID, its iris-scan-based proof-of-human system, as integrations with Zoom, Docusign, Okta, and Tinder a…
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 …
Elha-Mai Weston, 19, who was ordered to pay £10,000 to Sasha Davies, 19, after using her social media photos and AI-generated content to create fake online profiles in a four-year catfishing campaign,…
A teenager who was subjected to a four-year catfishing campaign after another teenage girl stole her identity has won a £10,000 payout. Sasha Davies, now 19, was targeted as a 16-year-old by Elha-Mai …
A teenage student, Sasha Davies, has won £10,000 in High Court damages after Elha-Mai Weston, another teenager from the same Welsh town, stole her identity and used her photos and AI-generated imagery…
Ditto, an AI-powered dating startup founded by former UC Berkeley students, is expanding across California college campuses by replacing swiping with AI-generated matchmaking. The platform has arrange…
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 …