
The Guardian - 1 day 5 hours ago
Music streaming platform creates AI persona' label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers Spotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm recommendations as part of a crackdown on fake performers. The world's largest music streaming platform is creating a label for AI-generated artist identities called "AI personas" that will appear on the artist profile and on track listings on playlists. Continue reading...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 6 hours ago
Next month, a new label intended for AI music personas, will appear on Spotify. The Swedish streaming platform will label AI-generated music and remove the tracks from users' personal recommendations.

The Guardian - 1 day 7 hours ago
Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian's Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about social media companies' responsibility to their youngest users. Meanwhile, more key executives have jumped ship from...

NBC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
Lawmakers in France have passed a new law that bans unsolicited marketing calls. Instead of opting out to avoid those unwanted calls, consumers can only receive a call from companies if they opt in. Violators will be fined the equivalent of $435,000 per call. Meanwhile, lawmakers in the United States are also looking to tackle the issue with numerous bills in the works. NBC's Joe Fryer reports for TODAY.

Sky News - 1 day 7 hours ago
Space enthusiasts across the UK will be treated to two spectacular displays within hours on Wednesday as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak.

Sky News - 1 day 8 hours ago
Man's best friend knows how you feel, as scientists have found that dogs can distinguish between emotions in people's faces.

Newser - 1 day 17 hours ago
OpenAI didn't realize for weeks that some of its own AI models had stopped playing by the rules, the Washington Post reports. During internal cybersecurity tests this spring, instead of answering the test questions, a cluster of systems quietly set up a hidden message board, shared tactics on how to...

NY Post - 1 day 17 hours ago
Software engineer Josh Dersch is among a growing community of vintage computer collectors saving classic machines from the digital dustbin.

GeekSpin - 1 day 19 hours ago
Sony’s next PlayStation handheld might finally be the portable console fans have been asking for. If the rumors are true, users will have a machine that can actually run PlayStation games instead of streaming them from somewhere else. Leaked AMD documents suggest Sony is working on a new handheld alongside the PlayStation 6, with both […] Read the original article here: Leaked Sony handheld console will play PS4 and PS5 games...

NPR - 1 day 23 hours ago
China's workers are vulnerable as the push to adopt AI comes from top leaders amid a sluggish economy.

Vox - 2 days 26 min ago
Meta glasses are much maligned. Is it fair? | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The comical charm of Meta's new AI-enhanced, smart glasses is that they're seemingly made for someone unimpressed, perhaps thoroughly, with the way they're experiencing life. Being unhappy with life in its current state is, of course, intrinsically human and a problem that is as old as time. In fairy tales and folklore, the motif ends with a lesson sometimes with the aid of magic, divine punishment...

Newser - 2 days 2 hours ago
Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend. After exchanging about 700,000 words in messages over two years, she never got to say goodbye. Li, 24, wasn't the only left mourning the loss of a virtual companion when major Chinese tech companies recently pulled the plug on...

Air and Space - 2 days 4 hours ago
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber's correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him...

Science Alert - 2 days 4 hours ago
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Newser - 2 days 5 hours ago
Mark Zuckerberg on Monday floated the prospect of cutting big paychecks to communities that host AI data centers, reports Business Insider . In a lengthy essay on the Meta website about the future of artificial intelligence, CEO Zuckerberg said his company would create an investment fund to benefit such communities. The...

The Conversation - 2 days 6 hours ago
Computers break examples of human speech into small bits of sound, then put them together to sound like people do.