Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier
Spotify began testing a new content format on Tuesday: narrated long-form magazine articles, slotted in alongside audiobooks rather than podcasts. The launch announced from the
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Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day for AI trainers who used to work there
Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two ex-bankers, are booked out for the next two months teaching financial institutions to actually use the AI tools they
Foreign-brand phone shipments to China rose 1.8% in April, CAICT data shows
Foreign-branded smartphone shipments to China, a category dominated by Apple, rose 1.8% year-on-year in April to 3.59 million handsets, according to Reuters calculations based on figures
China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms
Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier
FAQ: What you need to know about expiring Windows Secure Boot certificates
Microsoft is preparing to make a significant change to the Secure Boot system in Windows that will impact operations for both clients and servers. In
‘The Maids,’ With Yerin Ha, Asks: Has Life Become One Big Performance?
In his rethinking of Jean Genet’s classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders “a world that gives you every opportunity not to be
Ferrari unveils the Luce, a five-seat electric car co-designed with Jony Ive
The Maranello firm’s first all-electric model starts at €550,000, runs to more than 1,000 horsepower and arrives with deliveries in the fourth quarter. Ferrari pulled
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act
Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope
AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes
Big tech companies have a habit of offering something for free, watching the user base grow, and then quietly walking it back once people are
Bambu Lab Has Been Violating AGPLv3 for Years, SFC Says
The GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or AGPLv3, is one of the strongest copyleft licenses in the open source world. Published by the
Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking
Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative
From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing
Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” AI
With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical—his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). It