AI dating just moved from your phone screen to a table for two.

EVA AI — one of the biggest AI relationship apps — announced it’s opening what it calls the world’s first AI dating café in New York City, a pop-up designed entirely around going on a romantic night out with an AI companion. Not a human date.

The concept is exactly as wild as it sounds, one human and one phone together for what EVA AI calls "maximum romantic immersion." Think dim lighting, minimalist interiors, cozy single-seat tables and—in the most 2025 touch ever—a sleek built-in phone stand so your AI companion can sit across from you “naturally.”

It’s the physical-world bridge to a trend that has moved fast. Nearly 1 in 3 men and 1 in 4 women under 30 say they’ve interacted with AI companions. They text, laugh, confide

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