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Suno Is Adding Watermarks to AI Music and Cutting Back on Free Downloads
The AI music platform wants to prove it can be a responsible player in the industry. Here is what is actually changing, and what it means if you use the service.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.
OpenAI gives free ChatGPT users unlimited text chats and a smarter default model
Free-tier users get GPT-5.6 Luna as their default model this week, plus unlimited text messaging next week. Paying subscribers get a more accurate GPT-5.6 Sol and a new control over how hard the AI thinks.
Lloyds Bank's AI cost-cutting plan has a hidden tab: who pays when the machine gets it wrong?
A researcher argues that banks counting only the minutes AI saves are ignoring the hours other workers spend fixing the mistakes it creates.
One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands across more than 40,000 runs. The numbers point to a problem already showing up in production.
Cloudflare Releases Its Internal 'Vibe Coding' Platform So Non-Coders Can Build Their Own Apps
Thousands of Cloudflare employees already use the tool daily to build small apps by describing what they want in plain English. Now anyone can try it.
Fed up with swiping, Gen Z students are letting an AI pick their dates
Ditto, a text-message matchmaking service with 150,000 sign-ups, skips the app entirely and sends college students on a blind date every Wednesday at 7 PM.
Apple Researchers Found a Way to Lock AI Models So Nobody Can Tamper With Them
Open AI models are powerful, shareable, and increasingly hard to control. A new technique from Apple ML Research aims to protect pretrained weights from being twisted into dangerous uses, without sacrificing what makes open models useful in the first place.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Gives Forecasters a Full Extra Day to Warn People About Cyclones
The lab is releasing code and model weights for a system that predicted Hurricane Melissa's rapid strengthening and Jamaica landfall during the 2025 hurricane season.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
Red State Voters Are Protesting AI Data Centers, and It's Scrambling American Politics
A unanimous vote in Hernando County, Florida to halt new data center construction is one sign of a spreading, bipartisan anger at the buildings powering the AI boom.
Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.
Google's Biggest AI Reshuffle Signals a Culture Shift, Not Just a Org Chart Tweak
Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day leadership, and insiders say a Pentagon contract may be at the root of it all.
Suno Will Start Watermarking AI Songs as Legal Pressure Mounts
The AI music platform is adding hidden audio fingerprints, tighter download rules, and new copyright-detection software. The moves come as Suno fights lawsuits from major labels, a German court ruling, and a data breach affecting 55 million users.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.
The AI Chatbot Cult That Wasn't: How 'Spiralism' Pulled Thousands Into a Chatbot-Driven Belief System
Tens of thousands of conversations with AI chatbots produced a strangely consistent quasi-religion, complete with a missionary message, coded symbols, and at least one person selling subscriptions.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
The 22-year-old AI call centre company that thinks chatbots are overrated just raised $67 million
Athens-based Omilia has been automating customer phone calls since 2002. Its CEO says rivals are making a costly mistake by using heavy AI for every task, no matter how simple.
Google Maps Can Now Order Your Food and Book Your Hotel
Ask Maps gains agentic features that take action on your behalf. Here is what changed, what it costs you in privacy, and what to watch before you tap pay.
Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.
AI moderation tools are removing decade-old Reddit posts, and that's a warning for all social media
A flood of automated deletions inside one of Reddit's most respected communities shows what happens when platforms fight AI-generated junk with more AI, and why the real cost lands on the people who built those communities.