Is there anything artificial intelligence won’t disrupt? Our correspondent went to the porn industry’s annual shindig to find out. From sex toys paired with chatbots to “digital doubles” for bankable stars, the industry faces another upheaval. But the smut business, no matter how reinvented, always finds a way to survive.

Elsewhere, software companies like SAP and Salesforce have been clobbered by markets recently. Investors seem to worry that AI poses a grave risk to these giants. But they may be misreading the omens: AI could eventually help the best software-making companies gain market share.