Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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AI Girlfriend
Recent reporting, brand coverage, ongoing story threads, and source-backed context from SEXTECHGUIDE.
Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News ‘Siri is not up for that’: Apple wants Siri AI to get things done, not get you off
Apple's Craig Federighi stated that Siri AI will not engage in romantic or explicit interactions, positioning it as a purely functional assistant. The article contextualizes this within Apple's broader history of excluding sexual content
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Analysis Razer AVA is a gaming AI companion in a jar, and yes, people will fall in love with it
Razer's upcoming AVA hologram AI companion device features anime-style characters with an always-on camera and microphone, positioned as a gaming assistant but widely perceived as an AI companionship product with intimacy implications. The article
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News MyLovely.ai data breach allegedly leaks 70,000 explicit user prompts, company says nothing ‘critical’ was exposed
MyLovely.ai, an adult AI companion platform, allegedly suffered a data breach exposing over 106,000 users' email addresses, account details, and approximately 70,000 explicit chat prompts. The company's dismissive response claiming nothing 'critical' was leaked
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News The companion that’s watching you: AI Allure chatbots can now ‘see’ you and react to your gestures
AI Allure, an adult AI companion platform, has introduced live camera access and gesture recognition so its chatbot characters can 'see' users and react to their expressions, activities, and hand gestures in real time.
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Roundup Dating appdates (Apr’ 26): height verification, AI interventions, and Bumble’s big reinvention
A monthly roundup of April 2026 dating app news covering height verification via LiDAR on Tenr, Canadian research into AI-mediated social skills interventions for chronically single men, Bumble's AI-heavy relaunch, Tinder's expanded compulsory face
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Analysis Soulkyn plugs into Lovense hardware, giving AI characters real-time control of connected devices
Soulkyn, an AI companion platform, has integrated with Lovense hardware to allow AI characters to control users' connected sex toys in real time. The article examines how the integration works, what safeguards are in
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News AI companion apps with 150 million downloads shipped with security so bad hackers could read your sexts
A security audit by Oversecured found 14 critical vulnerabilities across 17 AI companion chatbot apps with over 150 million combined downloads, including hardcoded credentials and exposed cloud databases that could allow hackers to access
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News OpenAI’s erotic chatbot is coming, but its age verification isn’t great, insiders say
OpenAI's forthcoming adult ChatGPT mode will offer text-only erotic content described as 'smut rather than pornography', with a design philosophy aimed at nudging users toward real-world relationships. The rollout is complicated by an internal
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News AI sex robot heads are getting cheaper: meet Jiggly Joy’s Aura
Jiggly Joy has launched Aura, an AI sex robot head unit priced at $2,699, positioning it as an affordable entry point into AI-integrated companion technology. The article contextualizes Aura within a broader market trend
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Analysis The AI Act mostly ignores adult content. That’s not entirely good news
This article analyzes how the EU AI Act applies to the adult industry, finding that most adult AI use cases — chatbots, deepfakes, content moderation — fall into low-risk categories with lighter compliance obligations.
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News Lovense launching AI sex robot that can control sex toys remotely
Lovense has announced an AI-powered sex robot called Emily, set for release in Q1 2027 at a price of $4,000–$8,000, with $200 waitlist deposits now being accepted. The robot features touch-responsive sensors, AI conversation
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News Lovense launches AI chatbots that learn your preferences and control your sex toys
Lovense has launched an AI companion chatbot feature within its Remote app that learns user preferences through text conversations and directly controls connected sex toys based on mood and tone. The feature allows users
