Spotify's experimentation team argues that Bayesian A/B testing is not a single method but a family of configurations with different guarantees, and that default flat-prior Bayesian approaches can rep…
Spotify has removed AI-generated anime 'waifu' profiles and songs that had overtaken the accounts of legendary jazz musicians William 'Sonny' Criss, Jean Carne, Red Nichols, and Jimmie Noone, stating …
A free browser-based Spotify Canvas Maker lets artists create 3–8 second vertical MP4s from existing video or cover art, with all trimming and export performed locally and no media uploaded to a serve…
Playlist Forge, a new desktop app, uses OpenAI's Responses API with web search to turn a natural-language sentence into a researched, ordered playlist of 20–100 real recordings, with per-track rationa…
A developer reports cutting Claude Code token usage by 90% by routing routine I/O tasks to cheaper Gemini 2.5 Flash models via two custom modes in Spotify's Backstage Portal, with Gartner predicting A…
Spotify's Portal by Spotify, featuring AiKA Modes, cut a developer's Claude Code token usage by 90% by routing routine I/O tasks to cheaper models like Gemini 2.5 Flash. The developer created two mode…
1994.fm, a virtual car radio time machine for 1990s music, was released as a side project by developer Cannoneyed, supporting only Apple Music due to Spotify's developer hostility. The app, built with…
In a podcast episode, 404 Media's Emanuel spoke to an Amazon warehouse worker who destroys books to train Amazon's AI products, following up on his earlier investigation into Amazon's book scanning pr…
Serval, an AI-native IT service management startup valued at around $1 billion, has made its Catalyst product generally available, which uses AI to build and deploy workflow automations, including bac…
A developer spent four days building Longplay, an AI-driven Spotify queue agent that uses live vehicle telemetry to adjust music based on driving conditions, and tested it on a family road trip. The s…
Music publishers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that its AI models reproduce copyrighted song lyrics without licensing, challenging the fair use defense in AI training. The publisher…
Spotify engineer Erik Bernhardsson argues in a 2016 blog post that GPU-accelerated deep learning has a fundamental scalability problem: minibatch complexity scales linearly with the number of paramete…
Hightouch, a San Francisco-based Agentic Marketing Platform founded in 2019, is hiring a Software Engineer for Applied AI Research with a salary range of $180,000–$400,000 per year for a remote positi…
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, an autonomous consumer agent that performs online tasks such as filling out forms, making purchases, and booking restaurants, with unreleased materials revealing a b…
Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, born Rollie Pemberton, found 129 of his songs in datasets used to train AI music generators, highlighting a broader fight as AI-generated music floods streaming platfor…
Billboard reports that streaming platforms are adopting divergent policies on AI-generated music, with Deezer noting daily AI track uploads exceeding 50% at peak levels in June 2026 and Apple Music st…
Data centers are the hidden infrastructure behind modern life, powering apps, streaming, AI, and cloud storage, according to Brittany Kaiser, CEO of Alpha Compute, who told Fox News Digital that all d…
State Media FM, a free open-source (Apache-2.0) app, turns team activity from GitHub, GitLab, and Hacker News into a private radio station with generative music and spoken bulletins, run locally via a…
Google has expanded its coding agent Jules into a CLI, API, and MCP server, enabling autonomous code generation across terminals, CI pipelines, and editors. The tool offers a free tier with 15,000 tok…
Australia's official music charts will ban wholly AI-generated tracks starting this week, following a dispute over a Madonna cover by Queensland DJ Josh Fawaz that reached No. 4 on two ARIA charts in …