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Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent

Music streaming services like Spotify and YouTube Music have become the primary way people listen to music, which can be a lot more convenient than buying individual albums like we used to do. However, this also makes it easier for AI-created tracks to worm their way into your playlists. Most streamers don’t go out of […]

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Meta’s AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday, the company cited the “global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that]

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Google launches search app for Windows, Gemini app for Mac

Most people access Google’s search and AI products through a browser, but you’ve got some new options today. Google has been testing a Windows search app for some months, and it’s now officially available. Over on the Apple side of the fence, Google has focused its efforts on designing a native Gemini app. That one

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Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on “vibe coding”

Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being reported with other popular sites (Bluesky officially blamed the temporary problems on an “upstream service provider”). What made this outage

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Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In 2007, as Intel’s business faltered, operations in one of the key fabs, Fab 9, came

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AI at the Core of Corporate Wellness: Redefining Enterprise Productivity

For years, the corporate world approached employee well-being with a fundamental disconnect: treating it as a peripheral HR initiative rather than a core driver of business performance. We offered discounted gym memberships, hosted annual seminars, and hoped for the best. Yet, as the complexities of the modern, hybrid workplace accelerate, burnout has transitioned from a

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Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human

Reddit will require accounts that exhibit “automated or otherwise fishy behavior” to verify that a human runs them, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a Reddit post today. The verification process aims to combat unwanted bots from flooding Reddit at a time when AI bots are poised to take over the Internet. “As AI becomes

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses showing sensitive user content. The workers reportedly work for Kenya-headquartered Sama and provide data annotation for Ray-Ban Metas. The February report, a collaboration from Swedish newspapers Svenska

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Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and, in some cases, pushed it into the lead. The Nano Banana image generator was emblematic of that trend when it debuted last year, and subsequent updates only made

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The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

There used to be countless companies making flagship Android phones, but a combination of factors has narrowed the field over time. Today, Samsung is the undisputed king of the Android device ecosystem with its Galaxy S line. So we can safely assume today’s Unpacked has revealed the most popular Android phones for the next year—the

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