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Tinder is presenting sponsor of the 2026 London E-Prix on 15-16 August at ExCeL London, its first motorsport deal, with no success metrics disclosed.

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says Tinder's monthly active user decline has eased from roughly 12% to between 6% and 7%, helped by Double Date.

Match Group led an $18M seed round for Overtone, Justin McLeod's AI voice-based dating startup, which will not launch until late 2026.

Aisle, an Indian dating app, now refunds paid subscribers who get no "valid match" within 30 days. The offer is live on Android, with iOS to follow.

Fate, a London dating app with 10,000 installs, has launched Fate IRL speed dating events. The first two, on 18 and 21 July, have sold out.

Dating app SURF has expanded its HYROX partnership to Australia, letting users filter for HYROX singles, but it has shared no user metrics.

Enrise, Cupist and Triplecomma, Korea's three largest independent dating apps, have all launched in Japan as 70% of young Koreans shun dating apps.

Matrimony.com's Q1 billings rose 7.8% year-on-year to ₹13,603 lakhs ($16.3M), according to unaudited company figures.

Match Group has doubled its 2026 AI budget to $10 million and capped spending, while slowing hiring as it assesses AI's effect on staffing.

Wired alleges AI-generated Instagram accounts fuelled Goose's rise to No. 4 in the US App Store's free lifestyle category after its invite-only launch.

Match Group research finds 80% of Gen Z believe they will find true love, but only 25% of adults under 30 rank a relationship as their main goal.

Grindr shares jumped 16% after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight, citing its product pipeline and expansion plans.

Coffee Meets Bagel, with $23M raised, sees rivals like Tinder and Hinge adopt its limited-match model. The story questions if that validation brings growth.

Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos says the app deliberately loses 20% of prospective users during onboarding, a strategy tied to its "great dates" metric.

A Gleeden-IPSOS survey found 66% of respondents across 12 major Indian cities have used AI chatbots for sexual health education.

Bumble has hired Morgan Stanley to explore a sale, Reuters reports, after its market capitalisation fell 95% to $388M from $7B at its IPO.

Tinder is launching 'Double Date Island', a TikTok-exclusive reality series with friend pairs from eight countries, filmed in Portugal.

MirrorMe, a Johannesburg invite-only dating app, charges up to R488 (£22) a month and recorded 557 downloads in its first 24 hours.

Rakuten Viber is rolling out dating features across Southeast Asia and Europe, but has not disclosed how it plans to monetise them.

Match Group is closing gay dating app Archer on 17 June, three years after launch, and has invested $100 million in Sniffies.