All articles tagged with "AI & Machine Learning"
Tinder paused its AI Photo Enhance tool this week after users reported the feature altered facial features including tee…
Coffee Meets Bagel reports 30% increase in messages sent with likes and 21% rise in profile viewing time since June 2024…
Aisle has reached 30 million registered users but only 500,000 monthly active users—a 1.67% conversion rate far below in…
Messages sent alongside likes increased 30% since Coffee Meets Bagel's 2.0 launch, with profile viewing time up 21% CMB …
26% of American adults now use AI to write dating app messages, with Google search interest in 'chatfishing' up 5,000% D…
Tribal, an Australian dating app with 12,000 downloads, has launched AI-powered features, enhanced verification, and psy…
Lucille McCart, former Global Director of Corporate Communications at Bumble, has joined AI matchmaking startup Overtone…
Bumble's subscriber count declined 4% year-over-year in Q4 2024, whilst Match Group's paying user base fell 6% over the …
62% of Visakhapatnam residents are willing to use AI for sexual health information, approaching Bengaluru's 77% metro ad…
Meta now requires AI disclosure labels on all AI-generated or AI-edited ad creative in the "About this ad" section on Fa…
Match Group has doubled its 2026 AI budget to $10 million and implemented spending caps tracked via a central dashboard …
HubPeople's white-label platform powers approximately 4,000 dating apps that have collectively generated over $100 milli…
Coffee Meets Bagel has raised $23M in total funding since its Shark Tank appearance, competing against public companies …
66% of respondents across 12 major Indian cities have used AI chatbots for sexual health education, according to a Gleed…
Meta plans to increase AI-driven content and ad moderation from 50% to 90% by the end of 2026 Match Group disclosed $523…
Grindr now serves 15 million users and has raised its 2026 revenue guidance to at least $535M The company claims AI inve…
Hinge ranks first in 5W Public Relations' Dating App AI Visibility Index 2026, ahead of Tinder despite having a smaller …
64% of U.S. singles aged 18-39 have used AI to craft dating profiles or maintain conversations 47% view AI negatively wh…
UK dating platform with 25,000 registered users and 5,000 monthly actives has launched sale process Company reports 30% …
HubPeople's Hubbi 3.0 integrates persistent AI agent support with ChatGPT and Claude CoWork for continuous, context-awar…
70% of Coffee Meets Bagel active users completed AI-powered video selfie verification within the first month of rollout …
Dating app market reached 350 million global users generating over $6 billion in revenue in 2025 Major platforms allow a…
Tantan was acquired by Momo for $735M in 2018 and has now relocated its global headquarters from China to Singapore The …
Bumble plans to eliminate swiping entirely in a major 2026 app redesign, replacing it with AI-driven matchmaking AI dati…
Match Group's SVP of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth has joined Reality Defender's Ethics Committee, which establishes guardr…
Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $212.4M but lost 21.1% of paying users year-over-year, down to 3.2 million Net earnings su…
Match Group reported Q1 revenue of $864M, beating analyst estimates of $854.9M, whilst announcing hiring slowdown for re…
Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase from previous years according to the Fe…
Tinder's upgraded Smart Photos feature uses vision-language models to evaluate photo 'vibe', increasing prediction accur…
51% of UK singles now use AI features on dating apps for crafting messages, generating date ideas, and writing profiles …
DateGuard launches April 2026 as a third-party verification service using facial recognition, voice analysis, and AI-pow…
Gleeden claims 4 million Indian users, with female membership up 148% over two years Usage peaks during lunch breaks and…
Sonder has attracted 6,500 users in London through word-of-mouth alone, with no paid acquisition Sign-up requires 45 min…
Lorraine Adams, who introduced speed dating to the UK in the 1990s, has relaunched her dating services directory as an A…
Match Group settled with the FTC over OkCupid sharing user photos, location data, and personal information with AI firm …
Match Group reported 15.9M paying subscribers across all brands in Q4 2024, down from 16.3M the prior year 43% of US adu…
49% of partnered Indians have engaged in sexual or intimate interactions with AI at least once, according to a March 202…
36% of UK online daters now use AI to write profiles or messages, up from 21% a year ago 66% of singles say they'd be le…
Keeper, a Y Combinator-backed dating app, uses proprietary AI to rate users' physical attractiveness as its primary matc…
Grindr CEO claims AI generates 70% of the company's codebase—a claim no other major dating platform has approached Premi…
Tinder revenue fell 6% year-over-year in Q4 2024, with engagement metrics showing particular weakness The app now offers…
Grindr is launching a premium AI-powered subscription tier in beta across Australia, New Zealand, and select North Ameri…
Begins, a South Korean dating app, has introduced AI matching that assesses 'lifestyle alignment' and 'genuine compatibi…
54% of US singles now use AI tools for dating assistance, according to research from matchmaking service Arrows AI users…
Tinder announces Events tab launching in beta late May/early June, marking first major pivot to in-person meetups Match …
HubPeople operates a network of 4,000+ white-label dating sites across 70+ relationship niches Match Group (MTCH) shares…
LegacyX, a London tech firm with no dating industry experience, has launched Vortex, an app centred on double dates rath…
93% of Portuguese dating app users admit to ghosting matches, whilst 16% confess to lying on their profiles 57% of women…
55% of UK singles aged 18-26 have abandoned dating apps in favour of face-to-face meetings due to AI deepfake concerns 3…
Bumble Inc reported 4.4 million paying users in Q3 2024, down from 4.6 million the previous quarter Revenue growth has s…
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates by $4M The company announced a $40…
X is rebuilding its search infrastructure from scratch after AI bot traffic overwhelmed legacy systems, according to Hea…
Match Group share price has fallen over 60% from its 2021 peak due to stagnating Tinder growth and margin compression Bu…
TikTok Shop generated approximately $130 billion in gross merchandise value in 2024, marking 100% year-on-year growth Th…
Pinterest revenue hit $1.32B in Q4 2025, missing Wall Street's $1.33B consensus and triggering a 20% share price collaps…
Pinterest added 19 million monthly active users in Q4 2025, reaching 619 million globally Revenue hit $1.3 billion for t…
Grindr is testing an AI-powered subscription tier priced up to $499 per month—ten times standard premium dating app cost…
Facebook retired video profiles in 2022 after adoption stalled; now relaunching with AI automation to remove creation fr…
India reduces content takedown deadline from 36 hours to three, effective 20th February Platforms must deploy automated …
Three Day Rule relaunched in 2025 as an AI-powered dating app after operating as a premium human-led matchmaking service…
Tinder reported a 9% decrease in monthly active users for Q4 2025 year-over-year New registrations fell 5% year-over-yea…
India's Supreme Court suspended Meta's data-sharing practices and imposed a ₹2.13 billion ($23.6 million) fine whilst de…
48% of current online daters in New Zealand would consider a romantic relationship with an AI system 65% of daters would…
European Commission investigating X over Grok AI chatbot generating thousands of sexually explicit deepfakes daily befor…
AI-powered romance scams generated 4.5 times more revenue per operation than traditional methods in 2025 Cryptocurrency-…
TikTok deploys AI-powered age verification across EU using three-layer approach: automated detection, human review, and …
Nearly half of Gen Z singles have used AI in some capacity during their dating experience, from crafting messages to sel…
Tea exposed government IDs, selfie videos, private messages, and home addresses for over one million users in July data …
TikTok Shop has launched three AI-powered automation tools: image-to-video generation, auto-dubbing with synthetic voice…
Indonesia and Malaysia have blocked access to X's Grok AI chatbot over non-consensual sexualised images, including of mi…
Women use exclamation points at twice the rate of men in dating profiles, and multiple exclamation points at three times…
Grok was generating more than 6,700 sexually suggestive or non-consensual images per hour in early January—over 160,000 …
Match Group's share price has collapsed over five years as the company struggles to convert free users into paying subsc…
UK dating platforms must now prevent cyberflashing proactively under the Online Safety Act, with penalties up to 10% of …
Reddit's AI-powered Max campaigns delivered 17% lower user acquisition costs and 27% more conversions in alpha tests wit…
Match Group acquired Hinge for over $400M in 2019; founder Justin McLeod is now leaving to build AI dating app Overtone …
Vietnamese dating app Hullo has announced an AI matchmaking system backed by Nvidia, AWS, and Google accelerator program…
Bethenny Frankel launched The Core this week, charging members between $700 and $1,200 for access to a screened dating c…
Meta making Advantage+ automated advertising the default for all advertisers from this month, removing manual audience t…
Happn has launched AI-powered venue recommendations in France, Brazil, Turkey, and the Netherlands—but not the UK or US …
82% of Gen Z and 87% of millennials already use AI to write dating messages and build profiles 62% of Gen Z and 70% of m…
Nexuus is launching in mid-November as India's first AI-driven voice-based dating app, using vocal analysis rather than …
54% of American singles now consider romantic or emotional engagement with AI chatbots as infidelity, just 1 percentage …
Bharat Matrimony has invested $500,000 in Ask My Guru to integrate AI-powered Vedic astrology directly into its matchmak…
Match Group trades 58% below its February 2021 peak; Bumble has lost two-thirds of its value since IPO Match Group and B…
Gigi pivoted from AI dating app to professional networking after just 2 years, citing the fundamental paradox that succe…
Match Group controls approximately half the global dating market through properties including Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, …
Hello Group revenue fell to $186.6M in Q4 2024, down 2.6% year-on-year Paid users plummeted 15% to 7.3 million despite A…
Miami-based dating app Ailo launched this month with an AI matching algorithm designed by founder Dani Geary, who claims…
Global Dating Conference takes place in London 26-27 March, following merger of Global Dating Insights and Social Discov…
Grindr's revenue climbed 27% year-over-year in Q4 2024, nine times faster than Match Group's 3% growth to $864M Tinder's…
Dating platforms have spent two years marketing authenticity and intentionality whilst members reportedly use AI to plan…
82% of American Gen Z and Millennial daters now use AI tools in their dating lives, rising to 87% among Gen Z singles 95…
Match Group reported $864M in Q2 revenue whilst losing 5% of paying users year-on-year, dropping to 14.1 million subscri…
Grindr reports second-quarter results on 7 August with 14.5 million monthly active users across 190 countries The compan…
Bumble has launched a library of 20 expert articles and videos inside its app covering messaging etiquette, confidence-b…
Nearly half of Gen Z UK singles use AI tools to write dating profiles and messages, according to a December 2024 Bloombe…
Walnut gates its core matching feature behind mandatory daily educational modules on emotional intelligence and attachme…
Happn has integrated Foursquare's location database with AI to recommend date venues based on user interests and convers…
Grindr's Wingman AI currently has 10,000 users in limited beta testing The platform's Q3 2024 average revenue per paying…
Bumble is eliminating 30% of its workforce — approximately 240 employees — to save $40M annually This follows a 350-pers…
Only 15% of dating app users expressed enthusiasm about AI integration, the lowest of any app category surveyed 63.5% of…
More than 70% of users in Grindr's limited AI beta have found chat summaries and smart match lists useful, according to …
Generative AI usage is split roughly 50-50 between personal and business applications according to recent industry data …
Four new dating platforms launched in February 2025, each promising to solve algorithmic opacity whilst deploying sophis…
Hinge is testing chat limits that force users to focus on existing conversations before starting new ones AI-powered 'Wa…
Match Group generated $3.19B in revenue last year, primarily from subscriptions dependent on extended user engagement Mu…
Grindr's new A-List feature uses generative AI to summarise past conversations and curate romantic histories for premium…
Grindr is deploying its AI conversation summary feature to just 25% of premium subscribers, reaching approximately 2.5% …
Zepeel uses facial recognition AI to ban filters and edited photos, blocking users who attempt to upload altered images …
Sitch has raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator The platform charges $90–160 …
Betterhalf.ai matched two MBA graduates with 89% algorithmic compatibility, only for the connection to fail within hours…
Tinder has launched an AI-powered voice game using OpenAI's GPT-4o that scores users on conversational performance acros…
72-76% of Gen Z and millennials have never used AI dating tools and don't plan to Only 9-15% of respondents reported act…
Hinge added 1.1 million new paying subscribers in Q4 2024 alone, reaching 7.4 million globally Jackie Jantos promoted fr…
SugarDaddyMeet becomes first major dating platform to mandate universal AI-powered liveness verification for all users, …
Tinder's paying subscribers fell 9% year-on-year to 9.6 million in Q3 2024, down from 10.6 million Bumble reported a 4% …
Tinder will introduce AI-curated matching later in 2024, the first alternative to its signature swipe mechanic in over a…
BiCupid becomes first dating app for bisexual users to deploy AI-powered nude detection at scale 87% of female BiCupid m…
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod has ruled out deploying AI agents that interact with matches on users' behalf, citing inability …
Instagram has overtaken dedicated dating apps as the most popular platform for meeting romantic prospects among Rizz AI …
Seeking.com has introduced mandatory AI-powered facial verification for new users only, permanently exempting all existi…
Harmonizer launches with claims of AI-driven compatibility matching based on data from 20,000 couples, using a patent-pe…
Tinder's monthly active users fell 8% year-on-year in January 2025 Revenue came in below analyst forecasts, prompting ur…
Grindr is deploying AI-powered image verification to detect manipulated or fake profile photos The company is simultaneo…
Hinge's new AI profile coach, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o mini, analyses written responses and delivers real-time feedbac…
Hinge's new AI-powered Prompt Feedback tool rates profile responses as Great, Good, or Needs Work and provides coaching …
Match Group and Bumble are testing AI assistants that can message potential matches and screen conversations on users' b…
Australian dating app users are increasingly deploying AI tools like ChatGPT and RIZZ to write profiles and messages, cr…
Dinky One deployed AI moderation after human reviewers couldn't keep pace with explicit photo volumes on the body-centri…
Global dating services market projected to reach $13.4bn by 2030, up from $9.27bn today Compound annual growth rate of 6…
Dating services market projected to reach £10.71 billion by 2030, up from £7.41 billion in 2024—representing 44% growth …
flutrr has launched an AI chatbot offering real-time conversation prompts and sentiment analysis during live chats on it…
Match Group's Tinder lost 8% of paying users year-over-year in Q3 2024, whilst Bumble's paying subscribers dropped 3% in…
Happn is capping AI-curated daily matches at 10 profiles, departing from the infinite scroll model used by competitors M…
Laguna delivers one AI-generated match per day based on three psychological questions, claiming to replicate boutique ma…
Grindr plans full rollout of AI dating assistant by 2027 that will communicate directly with other users' AI agents befo…
75% of Australian dating app users surveyed experienced some form of sexual violence over a five-year period, according …
Rizz, an AI dating assistant, has reached 7.5 million downloads since launching in 2022 The app analyses dating app scre…
Schmooze has raised $4M in Series A funding, bringing total capital to $7.5M since 2021 launch The meme-based dating app…
Match Group revenue declined 3% in Q4 2024 to $864M from $893M year-over-year Bumble revenue grew just 3% in Q4 to $274M…
Three dating apps—Better In Person, Lovector, and Find Our Way—launched between 15-17 July with near-identical value pro…
I'm Lonely, Inc. launched this month with employer-sponsored memberships positioning romantic connection as a workplace …
EVA AI has launched four LGBTQ+ characters (two lesbian, one gay male, one non-binary) on its companion platform, timing…
Grindr raised full-year revenue guidance to between 23% and 25% growth and projected annual growth of 20% to 25% through…
Heyoosh launches with AI-driven personality matching and end-to-end encrypted messaging, positioning itself against main…
