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The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.

Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.

A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.

Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.

The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DOD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.

Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.

Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.

Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.

Lovable's founder said the fast-growing vibe-coding startup is looking for startups and teams to join its company.

Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he's tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry's secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become.

London’s Air Street Capital has raised a large Fund III with eyes locked on backing early-stage European and North American AI companies.

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.

Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.