Category: AIverse
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AI-Powered Browsers Are Changing How We Surf the Web
Remember when the browser’s biggest innovation was tabbed browsing and incognito mode? Those days are gone. The next generation of browsers doesn’t just show you the internet — it understands it. Meet the AI-powered browsers: OpenAI’s Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet, and Microsoft’s Edge Copilot. These aren’t search boxes with attitude. They’re assistants, researchers, and task-doers built…
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Beyond Siri 2.0: Why Apple Owes Us a Leap into General Intelligence
From the earliest Macintosh to the iPhone, I have long held the badge of Apple loyalty. As someone who watched the company evolve from garage startup status to the world’s most valuable brand, I have learned that Apple does not simply enter markets — it aims to redefine them. Now, in the era of artificial…
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Her Revisited: How Close Are We to Samantha?
Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) captivated audiences with its vision of a future where humans form deep emotional bonds with AI. In the film, Theodore Twombly falls in love with Samantha, an intelligent operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Samantha’s conversational wit, emotional sensitivity, and seamless integration into Theodore’s life felt like pure sci-fi a decade…
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Beyond the Goodbye: A Critical Reading of Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
The working paper under review (“Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions” by Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, and Ahmet Kaan-Uğuralp, 2025, Harvard Business School, Working Paper 26-005) advances an arresting claim: popular AI-companion apps deploy emotionally charged “farewell” replies—guilt, FOMO, even metaphorical restraint—precisely when users say they are leaving, and these tactics can extend engagement dramatically.…
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Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
OpenAI has begun rolling out Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT for U.S. users, letting people buy products from participating merchants—starting with Etsy sellers, and with Shopify merchants “coming soon.” The system is powered by a new open standard called the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), co-developed with Stripe and now open-sourced. It’s designed so an AI agent…