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Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start label...
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" so...
Framework delays its first Laptop 13 Pro shipments by a month
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from the first batch are now expected in Jul...
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
Apple's new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works. I have access and have been messing around with it, and my biggest impression so far is...
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from G...
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans. The company has been preparing f...
Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4
Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to5 Google, the latest spec has arrived on...
Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets
The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Google Search d...
Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others...
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a...
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a...
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now....