Influencers and podcasts directed the 2024 election conversation more than traditional media, signaling the death of the old campaign playbook, according to Kamala Harris's deputy campaign manager Rob…
Bill Gurley, a former Wall Street analyst and Benchmark partner who served on Uber's board and now studies complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, shared the mental models he relies on most including sy…
WiiM has announced the WiiM Bar soundbar, featuring a 2.1-inch circular touchscreen that displays album art and provides direct access to EQ settings and source switching without requiring a phone. Th…
Hackers successfully manipulated Meta’s AI chatbot to change the email address on a target Instagram account simply by asking it to do so. The incident, reported by 404 Media, highlights a major secur…
A podcaster created an AI avatar of herself in under 15 minutes using Google Flow and the new Gemini Omni video generation model. The experiment involved scanning her face with a phone and generating …
RSS feeds are experiencing a resurgence as AI agents increasingly rely on the protocol for deterministic, structured content consumption. The technology, declared dead in 2013 after Google shut down R…
AI-generated content frustrates users when it masquerades as human-made, but the frustration disappears when AI creations are clearly labeled and filterable. A recent debate over Spotify's verified AI…
Independent analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans argues that artificial intelligence is as transformative as the internet or mobile—but no more than that, placing the current …
A new theory proposes a "compressed spring" model for spiral galaxy formation. The New York Times reports that AI is now being used to sell homes without a realtor. Meanwhile, a University of Chicago …
Google has demonstrated that a platform engineering team of over 1,000 engineers can achieve near-zero misconfiguration incidents by synthesizing secure infrastructure from one-line developer declarat…
A wave of nearly identical AI-generated songs, all titled variations of "Angel Above Me" or "Run Run River," has gone viral on Spotify, TikTok, and iTunes, amassing millions of streams and hitting No.…
A wave of near-identical AI-generated songs, derived from the 2019 track "Angels Above Me" by Stick Figure, has flooded streaming platforms, accruing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and reac…
Data centers powering the AI boom have become the most polarizing buildings in America, with 70% of people opposing construction in their community and at least 20 proposed projects canceled due to lo…
AI-generated songs with near-identical names, lyrics, and melodies have flooded streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and hitting No. 1 on iTunes in Germany and Austr…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, and early testing shows the model excels at greenfield prototypes and one-shot features but struggles with the final 10% of tasks, edge cases in existing codebases,…
YouTube announced Thursday it is adding new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting that adjusts playback based on speech patterns, and…
YouTube is launching an AI feature that creates a personalized video feed based on user descriptions of their interests, moods, or favorite topics. The custom feed can be pinned to the top of the YouT…
The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast published an episode on April 29, 2026, titled "Build a Business AI Can't Replace," featuring host John Jantsch interviewing author Derek Rydall. The episode discusses …
OpenAI's Codex /goal command transforms AI from a turn-based assistant into an autonomous agent capable of working for hours on complex tasks without constant prompting. In a 30-minute episode, Claire…
Saregama managing director Vikram Mehra told analysts during the company's Q4 FY26 earnings call that streaming platforms should assign "no value" to music generated purely by artificial intelligence,…