5 Best Apps to Make Friends in NYC (2026)
From live maps to dinners with strangers, here are the best apps to make friends in NYC in 2026, and who each one is best for.
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5 Best Apps to Make Friends in NYC (2026)
From live maps to dinners with strangers, here are the best apps to make friends in NYC in 2026, and who each one is best for.
October 9, 2026
AI Knows You. Now Can It Find Your People?
Meta's new agent Muse can act on your behalf. New research shows AI reshapes who we turn to next. AI's next job may be helping you find your people.
September 8, 2026
We’re Building Smarter AI. We Still Need Each Other.
AI can make us more productive, but it can’t replace real human connection. As AI companions grow more popular, two recent developments raise an important question: are we using AI to improve our lives, or to replace the people in them?
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Beyond Benchmarks: How Safety, Math Proofs, and Economics Are Reshaping AI
Recent disclosures of AI sandbox escapes have triggered bipartisan kill-switch legislation and White House safety summits. Meanwhile, OpenAI's Astra model breaks ground with machine-verifiable math proofs, and DeepSeek's V4 Flash proves that high-end agentic AI is getting drastically cheaper.
August 5, 2026
The Week AI Started Doing Things Beyond the Chat Window
Google Search reaches into apps, Europe opens Android to rival AI assistants, and the race for smarter, cheaper AI keeps accelerating.
July 23, 2026
This Week In AI: The Frontier Stumbles Out of the Gate
This week's roundup covers the biggest AI news from July 9–16, 2026, including GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark, ChatGPT Work, Apple's AI strategy, Spotify's conversational assistant, Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight Inkling model, and the latest AI Safety Index. Together, these stories reveal an industry shifting from a race for intelligence to a race for trust, privacy, and user control.
July 16, 2026
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