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Meta claims that it is adding new features to Facebook Dating to help users receive more tailored matches.

Meta announced on Monday in a blog post that it is introducing an AI dating assistant chatbot within Facebook Dating to help users search for matches based on specific criteria, including location, profession, and interests. Users can enter prompts based on their preferences, like “Find me a Brooklyn girl in tech,” and the chatbot will assist with the search. Of course, users can still search for more than the traditional traits, such as height and education, Meta wrote in the blog post.

“It can help you find better matches based on your interests and preferences, giving you refined search and custom match recommendations,” the blog post reads.

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The AI dating assistant will start “gradually” rolling out in the U.S. and Canada starting this week and will be located on the Matches tab within Facebook Dating.

Meta also introduced another feature to Facebook Dating on Monday called Meet Cute, an option that gives users a weekly “surprise match” selected by Meta’s algorithm. Meet Cute offers the same advantage as the AI dating assistant: Users don’t have to swipe in order to get a match.

“Meet Cute is ideal for anyone who’s tired of swiping and is looking for a fresh, easy way to expand their typical pool of dating candidates,” Meta wrote in the blog post.

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What Is Facebook Dating?

Meta introduced Facebook Dating in September 2019, releasing it as a feature within the Facebook mobile app on Android and iOS for existing Facebook members.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of adults in the U.S. and Canada have created Facebook Dating profiles every month, and young adult matches among people ages 18 to 29 are up 10% year-over-year, per Meta’s blog post. It’s unclear how many active users Facebook Dating has.

Competing dating apps have millions of users — Tinder has 50 million monthly active users, while Hinge has 10 million, according to Wired.

Meta isn’t the only company investing in AI for dating. Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid, and other dating apps, entered into an agreement with OpenAI last year to bring ChatGPT internally to employees. The AI chatbot has since helped the company’s staff with coding, communications, and design, in addition to other tasks.

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The move was part of Match Group’s $20 million investment in AI, which has resulted in features like AI-powered matching on Tinder, released in February, and AI text editing on Hinge, which debuted in January. Despite introducing AI features, Match rival Bumble also released an AI-powered feature last month called Deception Detector, which uses AI to filter out fake, spam, or scam profiles.

Still, the dating tech market isn’t on the up. Match Group’s stock has lost about 65% of its value in the past five years due to declines in paying users, while Bumble has also faced drops in paying users. The company reported last month that for its second quarter, total paying users decreased 8.7% to 3.8 million.

Spirit Airlines is set to furlough 1,800 flight attendants, according to a memo sent to staff from John Bendoraitis, Spirit’s chief operating officer, on Monday.

“As we work to return Spirit to profitability, we face difficult decisions about our network, our fleet, and ultimately our workforce,” the memo said, per The Wall Street Journal. “We need to shift our focus to a complete rightsizing of the airline, which means volume-based adjustments to our Flight Attendant group, and across our teams. This is hard news, and we understand it affects not only you and your peers but also your families.”

Last week, Spirit CEO Dave Davis warned staff that job cuts were imminent after the company filed its second bankruptcy in less than a year in late August. The cuts announced on Monday will impact one-third of the company’s total cabin crew members.

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^{Travelers at a Spirit Airlines bag drop at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images}

The current, voluntary furloughs can be selected for six or 12 months, and those who choose the leave will keep medical benefits while out, according to a note sent by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) union to its members and seen by CNBC.

Bendoraitis said that about 800 flight attendants are already on leave, but there is a “limit to how many people can volunteer.” Hundreds of pilots have already been furloughed.

Involuntary furloughs will begin on Dec. 1, the union said.

Earlier this month, Spirit announced that it was ending service to a dozen cities in October, and rival airlines are already swooping in. Frontier Airlines, for example, which has a 35% overlap with Spirit on routes, per CNBC, said it would be adding 20 new routes.

“If Spirit suddenly goes out of business, it will be incredibly disruptive, so we’re adding these flights to give their customers other options if they want or need them,” said Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vice president of global network planning and alliances, in a press release at the time.

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