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As the rise of AI-generated music on streaming services continues, concerns are growing regarding how AI companies use copyrighted material to train their models, as well as how potential manipulations in streaming systems could lead to fraud. However, many music streaming services have yet to launch AI music detection tools. So, the streamer Deezer has taken matters into its own hands. In the ongoing effort to tackle this issue, Deezer introduced a tool that scans playlists from various streaming platforms to identify AI-generated tracks. Announced on Thursday, this free online AI music detector supports 27 languages and gives users from…

What if you could take your company’s best manager and clone them? Lazer Logistics, a yard logistics company that helps major retailers and manufacturers manage their freight from docks to warehouses, is attempting to do just that with the help of artificial intelligence.Mike Murphy, the company’s senior vice president of yard solutions and innovation, built an AI coaching tool that is embedded inside its operating system. Called Uncle Phil AI and modeled after the company’s COO Phil Newsome, it gives site managers access to the type of institutional knowledge that previously lived only inside Newsome’s head, said Melanie Sandlin, the…

For years, your phone’s Camera Roll has served dual purposes. In addition to helping you revisit special moments, it has also served as an archive for all sorts of things you find online, like recipes, fashion inspiration, travel ideas, interesting quotes, funny tweets, product recommendations, and more. Today, a new app called Pool is arriving to help you finally make sense of this digital clutter. Image Credits:Pool To get started with Pool, you simply give it permission to access your photos, which are moved into categories it calls “pools.” The pools created in the app are entirely dependent on the…

After decades of pollution, Brunswick residents have a new resource for researching the link between area Superfund sites and their health. A five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health (NIH) has been awarded to Emory University to examine how environmental contaminants affect human health, following a 2023 pilot study involving approximately 100 Glynn County residents, according to the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.Emory will lead the research in partnership with university faculty from the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, and Texas Tech University.“By combining cutting-edge exposure…

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” allows users to search the app for what they’re looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart. You can tell the chatbot what you’re in the mood for, share a recipe link to find the items, or describe the reservation you’re looking for. “Traditional search works best when you know the exact restaurant or table you’re…

A Google director says he has resigned, citing the company’s work with the US Department of Defense, Business Insider has learned.René Mayrhofer, a director for Android platform security, wrote a farewell note to colleagues that was circulated internally and obtained by Business Insider. He said his decision to resign had become “unavoidable” after Google signed an agreement to let the Pentagon use its AI models for classified work.”Google management has quietly abandoned the goals to become carbon-neutral because of the AI model energy usage,” he wrote in the note, titled “Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass” and dated May…

Most security cameras are useful only after something has gone wrong. Coram AI wants to change that.The Bay Area startup has raised $35 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-powered physical security platform, bringing its total capital raised to $66 million. The round was co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, 8VC, and Mosaic Ventures. The company declined to share its valuation.Founded in 2022, Coram helps organizations use the security equipment they already have. It connects cameras, badge readers, visitor logs, and emergency systems, and uses AI to help security teams find incidents and…

Judges are getting tired of cleaning up the AI slop oozing into their courtrooms.The latest example of their patience wearing thin can be found in Mississippi, where a federal judge brought the hammer down earlier this week on attorneys on both sides of a lawsuit after they admitted to submitting court filings containing bogus citations generated by AI.In a sharply worded sanctions order issued Monday, US District Judge Sharion Aycock removed all four lawyers from the case, barred two from practicing before the court for two years, and imposed a combined $8,000 in fines.The US District Court for the Northern…

Ido Bronstein learned how to turn messy data into usable intelligence inside the Israeli military. Now he wants to do the same for companies trying to make artificial intelligence work.Upriver, the startup he cofounded with Omri Lifschitz, has raised $14 million to help companies clean up and manage the business data that software tools need to work reliably.Valley Capital and Hetz Ventures led the seed round, with participation from angel investors, including two of the founders of Cyera, the Israeli cybersecurity startup, last valued at $6 billion.Three years ago, Bronstein was serving in an elite intelligence unit of the Israel…

Microsoft President Brad Smith has a message for tech leaders after college graduates booed AI during this year’s commencement speeches: listen.In a blog post published Wednesday, Smith said recent pushback — including from students about to enter the job market — against AI’s role in society should serve as “a powerful wake-up call for the tech sector.””To those in the tech sector who seemingly want to pursue a future where computers replace jobs, and AI becomes more capable than people, the next generation has offered a compelling response: ‘Not so fast,'” Smith wrote.For years, executives have cast AI as transformative…