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Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Elon Musk's X and Match Group on Wednesday joined "Fortnite" video game maker Epic Games' protest that Apple has failed to honor a court-ordered injunction governing payments in its lucrative App Store.The technology companies, which developed some of the most popular apps in the App Store, said Apple was in "clear violation" of the Sept. 2021 injunction by making it difficult to steer consumers to cheaper means to pay for digital content.Apple declined to comment specifically on the accusation,…

Match Group, the international conglomerate that owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and almost every other popular dating app, just inked a major partnership with OpenAI. The company shared only a few hazy details, saying AI will help employees with “work-related tasks.” The dating giant says it plans to squeeze artificial intelligence into “literally everything” in its apps, and today marks the first major step forward. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedThe company celebrated its new partnership with a press…

Tinder has announced it’s to the US, UK, Brazil and Mexico. This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of catfish swimming around the old dating pool. The new system requires that users take a video selfie and upload a valid driver’s license or passport.Tinder has long as part of its verification process, which would provide a blue checkmark to illustrate authenticity. So the passport and driver’s license stuff is new. Once you upload the ID, Tinder will check to see if it lines up with your video selfie and…

A man programmed ChatGPT to find his wife on Tinder, and it turns out that Tinder is fine with you doing the same. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“As outlined in the principles, Tinder and Match Group believe AI is a great tool that we believe will make dating better,” said a Tinder spokesperson. “During our last earnings call, the CEO of Match Group shared his vision for the future of dating and how we are exploring several AI-driven features on the post-match experience.”Did it just get hot in…

Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant.When Aleksandr Zhadan got out of his last relationship in 2021, he started looking for a girlfriend in Moscow the old-fashioned way: swiping through Tinder. He sank hours into sending out likes, messaging, and going on dates which all went nowhere. So he decided to program OpenAI’s GPT-2 to be his dating assistant. His program conversed with 5,239 women on Tinder, scheduling him over 100 dates, and ultimately finding his wife.Why is Everyone Suing…

Tinder’s chief operating officer, Faye Iosotaluno, is taking over as CEO of the dating giant, effective immediately, parent company Match Group announced Tuesday. Tinder’s top role has been empty since the August 2022 departure of Renate Nyborg. Match Group CEO Bernard Kim was serving as the company’s interim leader. Iosotaluno became Tinder’s COO in August 2022 after spending five years at Match Group, where she had served as chief strategy officer. Her appointment to Tinder’s top spot comes as the company continues its…

Image: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock)Tinder isn’t the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous $500-a-month tier, Tinder Select, led to considerable backlash back in September, the company has recently been expanding the membership offering by inviting additional users to apply for it.This Giant Company Owns Almost Every Dating AppYes, there’s a whole application that you have to fill out. And you have to have an invite in order even to be eligible to do that. Tinder Select…

There has always been little more to swiping right or left on a person's Tinder profile than if you like how they look. Now, the dating app is finally introducing a range of features that provide a more rounded idea of people, such as profile prompts and basic info tags.Anyone who has used apps like fellow Match Group-owned Hinge or Bumble will likely find many of these updates familiar. Profile prompts, for example, are a long-standing feature on both, with Tinder users now able to share their responses to statements…

Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile quizzes, basic info tags, and dark mode. Let’s look at these new features in details. The Match-group-owned app is rolling out profile prompts so that users can put up prompts and answers such as “The key to my heart is,” “The first item on my bucket list is,” and “Two truths and a lie.”…

Updated Nov. 6, 2023 3:44 pm ETSAN FRANCISCO — Google’s power in the digital economy is facing another major legal test starting Monday in a case targeting its role as a gatekeeper on billions of mobile devices.A group of jurors heard opening arguments from Fortnite-maker Epic Games that Google used its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers, as well as the search giant’s response to those allegations. The case forms the second part of Epic’s attack on the two largest mobile software providers…