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Google announced on Wednesday that it’s releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music generation model, a month after Lyria 3’s release. The new model will let users create tracks up to three minutes long, as compared to the 30-second-long tracks offered with the Lyria 3 model. The company said that, apart from allowing users to create longer tracks, the Lyria 3 Pro model will offer better creative control and customization. In the prompt, users can also specify different elements of a musical piece, such as intros, verses, choruses, and bridges, as the model understands track structure better than its predecessor. Google…
Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin labeling automated accounts that are providing a service to users, similar to how the “good bots” are labeled on X, and it will now require accounts that are suspected of being bots to verify if they’re human. Reddit stresses this is not going to be a sitewide verification requirement, and will only occur if something suggests that the account isn’t human, including its activity on the site…
Microsoft’s chief people officer just announced a sweeping overhaul of the human-resources team charged with compensation and policies for the company’s more than 220,000 employees, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider. Loading audio narration… “We’re in a time when technology, the way we work, and our org structures are all evolving,” the email from Amy Coleman, who took over as the company’s chief people officer in March 2025, states. “The pace of change is exceeding what our current operating model and decision rhythms were built for. We’re no longer being asked to scale for stability; we need…
One of the blockbuster hits of the AI age is, without a doubt, legal tech startup Harvey. On Wednesday, the company confirmed that it had closed a new raise at an $11 billion valuation, after reports circulated last month that it was working on another monster round. The company confirmed it inhaled $200 million from this round, co-led by returning investors Singapore’s GIC and Sequoia. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Evantic, and Kleiner Perkins also participated. With this new funding, the company has raised more than $1 billion in total, and its valuation jumped over 3.5x…
Users might not like bots in meetings visibly taking notes, but a lot of them don’t mind if an app on someone’s computer is doing the transcription. That’s the core reason behind Granola’s popularity, which helped it secure $125 million in Series C funding led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. This has tipped the company’s valuation to $1.5 billion, it said, up from $250 million as of the last round. The company said that existing investors like Lightspeed, Spark, and NFDG participated in the round as well. With this round, which…
SAO PAULO, March 25 (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is expected to be discharged from hospital on Friday, the doctor treating him told reporters on Wednesday, adding that Bolsonaro may require shoulder surgery in the future.* Bolsonaro, 71, has been hospitalized since March 13 fortreatment of an acute form of pneumonia. * The former president underwent tests after reporting painin his right shoulder, with initial assessments suggesting hemay need surgery in the future, lead doctor Brasil Caiado said. * The injury might have been aggravated by a fall inJanuary, in which Bolsonaro hit his head, Caiado said. *…
Meta is launching Meta Small Business, a new company wide initiative focused on supporting entrepreneurship and driving AI adoption, Axios reported on Wednesday. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a memo to staff that small businesses have always been a big part of the company’s business model, and that tens of millions of entrepreneurs already use its platforms to grow and connect with customers. The company now plans to do more in the space. “In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses,” Zuckerberg wrote. “We want to build the services that enable…
Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. When Diana Nyad was 64 years old, she swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first person to do so without a shark cage. It was her fifth attempt over the course of 3½ decades.“I said when I did that swim, which was 12 years ago, that that was the prime of my life,” Nyad said during a phone interview this month. She felt in better shape physically and mentally than she ever had before. “And honestly, at 76, I’m even…
A Delaware judge overseeing a lawsuit against Elon Musk has appeared in at least one LinkedIn search — from his lawyers.Attorneys for the Tesla CEO have asked Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick to recuse herself from a shareholder lawsuit against him because of her reactions to a LinkedIn post criticizing him.”In light of the Court’s recent public support of LinkedIn posts that create a perception of bias against Mr. Musk in these cases, recusal is necessary and warranted,” they wrote in a Tuesday night court filing. “These cases should be re-assigned to another random-drawn judicial officer of this Court.”The recusal motion was…
Meta began laying off hundreds of employees across the company on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected staff. Loading audio narration… The global cuts affected employees in Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, the source familiar said.A handful of employees who worked in Reality Labs and recruitment announced on LinkedIn that their roles had been eliminated, according to posts reviewed by Business Insider.”Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the best position to achieve their goals. Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees…