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friendship dynamics social similarity3 weeks ago6 min

Opposites Never Attracted: The AI Impact on Human Psychology Starts With a Dating Myth We Should Retire

A sweeping CU Boulder analysis of over 130 traits across millions of couples shows similarity dominates partnership. What that finding means for how AI models human connection — and why the old adage was always a story, not a mechanism.

ai search visibility citation metrics3 weeks ago5 min

Agents Read The Feed. People Still Read The Page.

A common argument says product page copy is dead because AI shopping agents only parse feeds and schema. Here is why that thinking loses sales on both ends of the funnel.

open source ai models3 weeks ago5 min

Democratizing Artificial Intelligence Through Open Source and Open Science Ecosystems

An exploration of how open-source repositories, shared model weights, and collaborative toolkits like Hugging Face drive AI democratization — grounded in a community fp16 fork of the ModelScope DAMO text-to-video model, its licensing, file tree, storage format decisions, and safety flags.

budgeting forecasting3 weeks ago4 min

Budgeting for Innovation: How Everyday AI Tools for Product Owners Shape Tech Spending

An analysis of Deloitte's Tech Spending Outlook showing 90% of organizations boosting budgets for innovation, and how product owners manage AI costs, cloud computing services, hybrid compute, and token economics using everyday AI tools.

ai financial markets digital assets cryptocurrencies3 weeks ago5 min

Cronos Network Resumes After Tectonic Exploit

Comprehensive expanded article on the Cronos network resumption following the $74 million Tectonic protocol price-manipulation exploit, detailing attack mechanics, emergency response, network restart, and DeFi security implications.

ai decision making psychology3 weeks ago4 min

AI Impact on Human Psychology: Overcoming Groupthink and Collective Missteps

An in-depth exploration of group decision-making flaws—groupthink and the Abilene paradox—and the role of artificial intelligence in psychology.

ai market shifts corporate evolution3 weeks ago3 min

Why 2026 Belongs to AI Plumbing Over Headline Models

Deloitte Global's TMT Predictions 2026 report reveals that the gap between AI's promise and reality will narrow as organizations shift focus from headline-grabbing models to fundamental infrastructure, robust data architecture, and practical enterprise execution.

automated bidding roas optimization3 weeks ago5 min

How Smartly.io Secured $20M in Secondary Funding to Fuel U.S. Expansion Without an Early IPO

Smartly.io's $20 million secondary funding round in 2017 from Highland Europe enabled employee equity rewards and aggressive U.S. expansion without premature IPO pressure.

ai trust dynamics3 weeks ago5 min

Human-AI Relationships and Trust: Can Meta's Muse Go Where Its Ads Couldn't?

Meta's Connect event put its new AI agent Muse front and center as a consumer companion and "personal superintelligence." But human-AI relationships that feel personal collide with a business model built on ads, reviving old questions about data, safety, and whether people will let Meta that close.

ai search visibility citation metrics3 weeks ago5 min

Stop Guessing at SEO Wins — GA4 and Search Console Already Tell You What to Fix

Link GA4 and Google Search Console to connect search queries with on-site behavior, prioritize SEO opportunities, and measure whether changes improve meaningful outcomes.

cocaine neurobiology3 weeks ago4 min

Why Strong Arguments Beat Flashy Production in Anti-Smoking Brain Science

Why Strong Arguments Beat Flashy Production in Anti-Smoking Brain Science

ai decision making psychology3 weeks ago3 min

The Blind Spot of Success: Why Smart People Make Poor Decisions and the AI Impact on Human Psychology

Examining why smart people make poor decisions, the illusion of success, and how artificial intelligence and psychological insights help overcome cognitive bias and separate track records from good judgment.