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Dispatch August 5, 2026

The Intimacy Wave: What Will AI Companionship Be Worth in 2027?

The next AI wave isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming for your loneliness. Models can already perform emotion convincingly; by 2027, the question will be what, if anything, stands behind the performance.

Dispatch August 4, 2026

What owning an AI story actually means

Every platform will tell you your data is exportable. Not one of them can tell you where to take it - and understanding why points at the thing actually worth demanding.

Dispatch August 4, 2026

The fragmented companion: what three apps cost your world

Chat in one app, images in another, lore in a third document nobody has opened since Tuesday. The friction is not the annoying part — the forgetting is.