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ElevenLabs has launched “The Eleven Album,” featuring original music from established artists including Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, created in collaboration with the company’s AI music generation system. The project marks one of the first large scale partnerships between artificial intelligence technology and professional musicians, Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The album features tracks across …
Around 800 creatives have joined a new campaign to protest the unauthorized use of their work by artificial intelligence companies. Mia Sato reports for The Verge that authors, actors, and musicians are calling the practice “theft at a grand scale.” The coalition includes famous names like Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and the band R.E.M. The …
Bandcamp and San Diego Comic-Con have implemented strict policies against generative AI to protect human creators. These decisions follow growing pressure from artists who seek to maintain the value of original work. Both platforms have transitioned from flexible approaches to explicit bans on AI-generated submissions. Bandcamp now prohibits music produced wholly or substantially by AI. …
Governments in the United Kingdom and Ireland are taking legislative action to address the misuse of artificial intelligence in creating non-consensual images and voice recordings. The UK government is enforcing a law this week that makes it a criminal offense to create or request non-consensual intimate images. This move specifically targets tools like the Grok …
Apple and Google have announced a multi-year collaboration that will integrate Google’s Gemini models into Apple’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. The partnership will power future Apple Intelligence features, including an updated version of Siri expected to launch this year. According to a joint statement, Apple selected Google’s AI technology after “careful evaluation”. The next generation of …
Meta has acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup, for more than $2 billion. The deal represents one of the first major acquisitions by a U.S. tech company of a startup with Chinese roots, according to the Wall Street Journal. Manus builds general-purpose AI agents that autonomously execute complex tasks such as market research, coding, data …
Nvidia has entered into a licensing agreement with AI chip startup Groq, acquiring rights to the company’s inference technology. According to investor Alex Davis, whose firm Disruptive led Groq’s recent funding round, the deal is valued at approximately $20 billion in cash, making it Nvidia’s largest acquisition to date. The agreement includes the transfer of …
OpenAI has significantly improved the profit margins on its paid products this year, even as the company struggles to turn an overall profit. The ChatGPT creator now retains 70 percent of revenue after covering the computing costs for paying customers, according to a report in The Information. Mark Bergen reports for Bloomberg that OpenAI’s “compute …
OpenAI aims to raise up to 100 billion dollars in a new funding round that could value the startup at 830 billion dollars. Kate Clark and Berber Jin report for The Wall Street Journal that the company needs this capital to fund its expansion. This fundraising effort comes at a time when the initial public …
Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging that the tech giant is using artificial intelligence to infringe copyrights on a massive scale. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The entertainment company claims Google copies Disney’s copyrighted works without authorization to train generative AI models. Disney also alleges that Google uses these models to distribute …