In 2025, taste was no longer refined or rare. It was aesthetic, reproducible, and a performance of access rather than ...

Music played in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, wearing a white gown and tiara, dabbed away her tears, taking in the words of her husband-to-be: an AI-generated persona gazing out ...

A woman in Japan married an AI-generated boyfriend, who was present on a phone screen, and even exchanged rings in the candle-lit ceremony.