AI-generated tracks make up 44% of new music uploads on Deezer

Deezer now receives nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks every day, making up 44% of all new music uploaded to the platform. An official press release states that this figure has grown from 10,000 daily uploads in early 2025 to its current level in roughly one year. Despite the volume, AI-generated music accounts for only 1 …

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US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacenter emissions secret

US tech companies successfully convinced the European Union to keep environmental data from individual datacenters hidden from the public. Ajit Niranjan reports for The Guardian that Microsoft, alongside industry groups DigitalEurope and Video Games Europe, lobbied EU officials to classify all datacenter performance indicators as confidential commercial information. The lobbying effort was strikingly effective. The …

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Gemini can now use personal data and Google Photos for image generation

Google has updated the Gemini app to generate images based on personal data from connected Google services. The feature combines Personal Intelligence with the image model Nano Banana 2 and, optionally, a user’s Google Photos library. Previously, users had to write detailed prompts and upload reference photos manually to get relevant results. The update removes …

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Perplexity launches AI agent “Personal Computer” for Mac

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer, a new feature that brings its AI agent software directly to Mac computers. The tool is an expansion of Perplexity Computer, which the company describes as an all-in-one digital worker capable of creating and executing entire workflows. Personal Computer is now rolling out to Perplexity Max subscribers, who pay $200 …

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Anthropic launches Claude Design for visual prototyping

Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product that lets users create visual work through conversational prompts. The tool produces designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral. It is available in research preview for paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) and is rolling out gradually. Claude Design is powered by Claude …

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with stronger coding and vision capabilities

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable publicly available AI model. The company says the model performs better than its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.6, across software engineering, document analysis, and visual tasks. One of the model’s key traits is self-verification. In internal tests, Opus 4.7 built a text-to-speech engine in the Rust programming …

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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index reveals sweeping changes in research, economy, and public trust

Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute has released its 2026 AI Index Report, one of the most comprehensive annual assessments of artificial intelligence. The report draws on data across research, economics, policy, and public opinion to provide a detailed picture of where AI stands today. Capability is advancing faster than the tools to measure it …

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Google’s new voice AI lets you direct speech like a film director

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a new text-to-speech model that the company describes as its most natural and expressive to date. The model is available in preview through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI for enterprise users, and Google Vids for Workspace users. The model supports more than 70 languages and …

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Chrome’s new Skills feature lets you run AI tasks with a single click

Google has launched a feature called Skills in the Chrome browser that lets users save AI prompts and run them again with a single click. The feature is available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome on desktop. Without Skills, repeating an AI task required users to type the same prompt each time they visited a …

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Europe is losing the AI race. This French startup has a plan to change that.

Mistral AI, one of Europe’s leading artificial intelligence companies, has published a detailed policy playbook calling on European governments and institutions to take urgent action to build a self-reliant AI ecosystem. Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, warns that without decisive steps, Europe faces economic decline, reduced strategic influence, and growing dependence on …

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