Premium subscribers will be able to generate AI versions of songs by participating UMG artists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed licensing agreements that will let premium subscribers generate AI covers and remixes of songs by participating UMG artists, the two companies said on Thursday. It is the first […]
Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and the $200 million Weavy acquisition. For months, Figma has been opening its canvas to other people’s AI. […]
It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’s device through a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, marking one of the most significant breaches the Microsoft-owned company has ever […]
A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. A consortium of French companies led by Iliad’s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union’s […]
A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will arrive anyway. In the spring of 2024, a Tow Center researcher at Columbia Journalism […]
The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest US quantitative trading firms, to supply HRT with access to NVIDIA chips, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The […]
The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, asked the US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Roblox, Reuters reported, […]
Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same day. The cuts implement the 10%-workforce-reduction […]
The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based deeptech company building autonomous infrastructure for materials R&D, announced plans on Wednesday for a 6,000-square-metre, €280m facility in Berlin called GigaLab, designed […]
T-Head’s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zhenwu M890 on Wednesday, the company’s latest GPU-class AI chip designed as a domestic alternative to NVIDIA’s […]
