Artificial intelligence is generating music at a scale that is reshaping the streaming industry. French streaming service Deezer reports that 75,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to its platform every day, accounting for around 44 percent of all daily uploads. Spotify removed more than 75 million spam tracks in a single year. The surge is driven …
The biggest legal battle shaping the future of creative work may not be the one making headlines. While more than 90 lawsuits have been filed against AI companies for using copyrighted material to train their models, Jacob Noti-Victor and Xiyin Tang report for The Atlantic that a different copyright question will prove far more consequential: …
OpenAI has identified the root cause of an unusual behavior in its latest AI models: a tendency to spontaneously mention goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons in otherwise unrelated conversations. The company traced the problem to a flaw in how it trained models to adopt different personality styles. The issue first appeared after the …
Mistral has launched remote coding agents and a new AI model called Mistral Medium 3.5, marking a significant step toward autonomous software development. Mistral explains that the system allows coding tasks to run in the cloud without requiring a developer to stay at their computer. The new model is a dense 128-billion-parameter system with a …
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that combines text, vision and audio processing in a single system. Most existing AI agent systems rely on separate models for each modality, which increases latency and cost. Nvidia says its new model eliminates that fragmentation. The model uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture with …
A newly released language model called “talkie” offers a striking glimpse into what artificial intelligence looks like when trained exclusively on historical text. The model, described as a 13-billion-parameter system built on data from around 1930, produces responses that blend period-accurate knowledge with confident factual errors. The official announcement explains that the project presents talkie …
High-earning, experienced workers are adopting artificial intelligence tools at work far faster than their lower-paid colleagues, raising concerns that the technology could deepen existing inequalities rather than reduce them. Madhumita Murgia and John Burn-Murdoch report for the Financial Times. A poll of 4,000 workers in the United States and United Kingdom found that more than …
Anthropic has released a set of connectors that link its AI assistant Claude to software used widely in creative industries. The integrations cover tools for visual design, 3D modeling, music production, and video work. Partners include Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, Affinity by Canva, Splice, SketchUp, and Resolume. Connectors are tools that allow Claude to access …
Mistral AI has launched Workflows, a production-grade orchestration platform designed to help businesses deploy AI reliably across critical operations. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the Paris-based company, valued at approximately $13.8 billion, released the product in public preview as part of its Studio platform. Workflows allows engineers to define, run, and monitor multi-step AI …
Google is testing a conversational AI search feature on YouTube called “Ask YouTube.” Jay Peters reports for The Verge that the feature is currently available to YouTube Premium subscribers in the United States who are 18 or older. Instead of typing keywords into a search bar, users can ask full questions in natural language. YouTube …