Character.ai’s bankruptcy leaves 20 million users wondering if their AI companions will survive
Users are begging for chat exports and open-sourced models, and Replika's erotic roleplay purge already showed how badly a mere feature change…
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Blush gives its AI character Rowen a $299.99 ride-on dildo body
Blush and TouchReal are pairing dildos with named AI characters, but a dildo that actually syncs with its character's chatbot is still…
Devin bets women will pay $249 for a vibrator that reads their arousal, eventually
Morgan Hewett's pitch is that women will pay well above the $150 they typically spend on a vibrator, then keep paying for…
Somnia Lab is motion capturing sex positions for its Model L robot, and the base model ships with four
Model L won't walk, its pre-order button is disabled, and most of the humanoid imagery looks like renders rather than hardware. Somnia…
‘Horrific violations’: Manhattan DA seizes 12 sites selling celebrity deepfake porn
One survivor's complaint brought down sites carrying AI porn of more than 1,200 people, most of them women, but nobody has been…
SexLikeReal rebuilt Build Your Own Journey (and its power users think the old version was better)
SLR rebuilt Build Your Own Journey as a full video editor inside the site, with branching stories, overlays and conditional sex toy…
Lelo’s F2S Double Sonic stroker makes its vibrations less even on purpose
The new stroker counts 13 modes and 16 intensity levels, five of those modes app-only, which is closer to a recount of…
Irontech’s AI vagina add-on learns how you thrust after five uses, and then syncs with your rhythm
Walking, talking sex robots are still mostly marketing. The engineering budget is going somewhere less cinematic, into sensors, learning software and an…
Two anonymous Hollywood producers built Rogue AI to make hardcore porn look like a studio movie
Rogue AI launched this month, a cinematic porn generator from two anonymous Hollywood producers. Safe-for-work jobs route out to models like Sora…
Dating appdates (Aug ’26): Overtone’s vague ‘elimination’ plan and chatfishing’s rise
Also this month: friends and family get a say on your Hinge profile, South Australia plans a nation-first dating app ban for…
China bans AI companions that cultivate dependency, but sex robots seemingly sit outside the rules
Providers can no longer build AI companions designed to cultivate emotional dependence, under-18s are barred from virtual intimate relationships, and platforms have…
Lovescape’s AI companions now sync natively with Ohdoki’s Handy strokers
Handy strokers syncing to AI girlfriends is just the start. Lovescape says manual control defeats the point, and rivals like Lovense and…
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‘I’ve spotted something sus’: Calmara’s AI scans dick pics for signs of STIs
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Realbotix threatens legal action over headlines linking it to sex robots
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UBTech’s U1 humanoid robot is a companion that ‘won’t tell you that you’re annoying’
Dating appdates (June ’26): family vetoes, paid meetups and gold stars for texting back
‘Siri is not up for that’: Apple wants Siri AI to get things done, not get you off
Two men charged under Take It Down Act as US deepfake law finally bites
Dating appdates (May ‘26): ‘Pixel twins’, Tinder’s iris scans, and a gay hook-up gold rush
EU bans AI nudify apps under amended AI Act, with December deadline
Radiant Mobile wants to build a phone network ‘void of porn, LGBT, trans’
Multiple cameras, virtual orgies, and AI: one VR porn CEO’s roadmap for what’s next
Apple and Google app stores ‘elevate and promote’ AI nudify apps, new report finds
Ex-OnlyFans CEO launches Vylit, a ‘topless-only’ adult content subscription platform
Razer AVA is a gaming AI companion in a jar, and yes, people will fall in love with it
MyLovely.ai data breach allegedly leaks 70,000 explicit user prompts, company says nothing ‘critical’ was exposed
Dreamcam’s real-time voice translation works across VR and non-VR streams, hands-free
The companion that’s watching you: AI Allure chatbots can now ‘see’ you and react to your gestures
Dating appdates (Apr’ 26): height verification, AI interventions, and Bumble’s big reinvention
ChatGPT shelved adult chat indefinitely as Claude gets wired to vibrators
OpenAI’s erotic chatbot is coming, but its age verification isn’t great, insiders say
Naughty teddy: Age-restricted AI chatbots are being used in children’s toys
Stronger motors, same pain: sextech’s pelvic floor problem
Grok exposed porn performer Siri Dahl’s legal name and that’s a problem for everyone
AI sex robot heads are getting cheaper: meet Jiggly Joy’s Aura
RentAHuman.ai is already being used to hire dates and wingmen
Lovense wants OpenClaw AI to sync your vibrator to your flight speed, and make its app your everyday assistant
Dating appdates (Feb ’26): Grindr locks down the Olympic Village, Tinder owes $60M, and Hinge founder bails
The AI Act mostly ignores adult content. That’s not entirely good news
Apple and Google ignored own policies while nudify apps hit 700 million downloads
Meet David: Realbotix’s smirking male robot that definitely, absolutely isn’t for sex
