Five years ago, it was rare for escorts to charge more than $1,000 per hour. Now, there are a handful of women charge much more than that: $3,500 an hour, $5,000 an hour. One popular escort charges $23k a day. Another charges $30k a weekend.
Excited to reveal the 2026 Forbes AI 50 List, which spotlights the most promising privately-held AI companies in the world.
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Mercor reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Run by the youngest-ever self made billionaires, the startup is facing a wave of challenges: employee fraud, North Korean infiltration and cultural growing pains.
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Your 2021 Slack vent-session could be helping a future AI agent learn to "act professional."
My latest @forbes.com story dives into how AI labs are clamoring to buy email, Slack and Jira data from defunct companies, to use as fuel for training AI.
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Its founder, 26 year-old Jan Zoltkowski, or "shep" as he's known to his die-hard fanbase, is able to serve 13 trillion tokens a month through hunting down cheap GPUs and optimizing small open-source models. The biggest problem? Getting them to say 'pussy' when they don't want to.
The #10 consumer AI app isn't a coding tool; it’s an erotic chatbot for women.
Riding off the romantasy wave, the 3 guys who run Janitor AI serve 100M monthly visitors (80% women) -- for 130k a month. Inside the R-rated Roblox: www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
What's a way to make a killing in the AI boom if you're not an AI researcher or early Anthropic employee? Becoming a "nerd-first" escort. Read my story to find out more about the shifting economics of intimacy in Silicon Valley: www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
Someone finally answered the question of “why are there no major AI boyfriend apps?”
The hook was romantasy which is now a major subgenre for women.
The Forbes 2026 AI 50 List spotlights the most promising artificial intelligence businesses. See the leaders driving the future of AI.
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee...
A small group of high-end companions are charging time-poor technorati thousands an hour by offering a blend of sex, attention and genuine intellectual rapport.
