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The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.
Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories
Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is rewriting the rules of cyberattack and defence, and the mass job losses that forecasters promised still aren't showing up in the data.
Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?
Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for AI's future, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.
Spotify Will Flag AI Artist Profiles and Cut Them From Your Recommendations
Starting mid-September, the streaming giant will badge artist profiles that appear to use fake, AI-generated identities and stop recommending their music by default.
Spotify Will Flag AI-Generated Artists and Keep Their Music Out of Your Recommendations
Starting next month, a new badge will appear on artist profiles where the identity is AI-generated rather than a real person. Their music will also stop appearing in Spotify's playlists and suggestions unless you choose to follow them yourself.
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.
Spotify's AI Remix Tool Just Got a Lot Bigger
Merlin, which speaks for more than 30,000 independent labels, has signed on to let fans make AI-generated covers and remixes of their artists' music, with pay and credit built in.
How AI is turning your music app into your everything app
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok each started by owning one format. AI is now pushing all of them toward owning your entire evening.
Spotify Lets You Talk to Its AI to Find Music, Check Your History, and Skip the Wait for Wrapped
A new chatbot feature on Spotify Premium lets you speak or type your way to music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and it already knows what you have been listening to.
Spotify Now Lets You Have a Real Conversation to Pick Your Next Song
A new chat assistant built into the app lets Premium subscribers talk or type their way to the perfect playlist, in real time.