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The potential role of AI in dating was a core part of Match Group's investor day. 🗣️ "AI will transform the dating experience. It's going to make us and enable us to make all aspects of the online dating journey better," Match Group CEO Bernard Kim said during his opening remarks. ✨ Tinder teased AI-enabled discovery, suggesting matches based on insights from photos and quizzes. Hinge is building an AI-powered dating coach. Activist investors are pushing the company to make strategic moves, including putting exploring a sale if the stock fails to recover. 👀 More details on Axios Pro:

McKinsey & Co. will pay $650 million in a deal with federal prosecutors over its work helping Purdue Pharma increase opioid sales.

NEW: OpenAI argues in a new court filing that Elon Musk's own emails show he wanted OpenAI to have a for-profit component and wanted to own and run it himself.

The same advances that let cutting-edge AI reasoning models solve complex problems also seem to enable and encourage them to lay plots and deceive users.

For Axios I've been looking into chatbot companions and other apps that offer AI models that simulate human empathy and companionship. Chatbot companions — also called AI girlfriends or boyfriends, personalized AI, social bots, or virtual friends — have been heralded as a cure for loneliness. But critics say they may intensify feelings of isolation and could be especially dangerous for teenagers who already struggle with behavioral challenges. Even ChatGPT creator OpenAI warns against emotional reliance on chatbots. When the company released its newest model — GPT-4o — in August, it published a report explaining that users might form social relationships with AI, "possibly affecting healthy relationships." "Beyond access to problematic content, developers need to consider the accessibility of these tools and the impact that 24/7 access and notification has on kids," Robbie Torney, senior director of AI Programs at Common Sense Media tells Axios. https://lnkd.in/ghH9YnQG

SCOOP: Ronny Conway is joining venture capital firm SV Angel as a managing partner, while continuing to serve as a partner with A.Capital.

ChatGPT can now see what you see. OpenAI is rolling out the ability to share your phone screen and live video from your phone in the ChatGPT mobile app's Advanced Voice mode so users don't have to upload photos or describe their surroundings in chats, the company announced Thursday. More in Axios. Screen and video sharing could make voice chats more efficient and useful, but they also offer OpenAI more access to a user's potentially sensitive personal information and bring up all kinds of questions about bystander privacy. But... it could help you learn how to make better pour over coffee ☕️ https://lnkd.in/gPf_Ur44

NEW: OpenAI is rolling out the ability to share your phone screen and live video from your phone in the ChatGPT mobile app's Advanced Voice mode so users don't have to upload photos or describe their surroundings in chats.

Axios News Shapers Axios hosts our final News Shapers event of the year looking at the post-election outlook for Capitol Hill and the latest news of the day.

David Bonderman, the founder of private equity firm TPG and owner of the NHL's Seattle Kraken, died at the age of 82.