Category: AIverse
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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…
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AI Magnifies Your Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses – Insights from Google’s 2025 DORA Report
AI as the Great Amplifier Artificial intelligence isn’t a magical fix for a struggling software team – it’s more like a spotlight and a megaphone. That’s the main takeaway from Google Cloud’s 2025 State of AI-Assisted Software Development report, part of the DORA research program (DevOps Research and Assessment). The report reveals that AI doesn’t…