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Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said. “We are committed to protecting and rewarding organic creativity to avoid compromising an artist’s ability to connect with and build their fandom from TIDAL subscribers. Many have told us they do not want to be exposed to — or prompted to listen to — wholly…
In just a few years, AI assistants have become part of the everyday rhythm of office work, used to gather information, sharpen a pitch, or draft slides. There’s no denying that the productivity gains for individuals are real, but the high-value, scalable use cases that matter to enterprises remain to be proven.Companies are grappling with unclear pricing of new, highly adopted AI platforms and facing surprising bills from token cost, alongside the growing problem of customer communication becoming AI slop, as generic AI tools dilute company DNA and take content away from core knowledge and company expertise.For enterprises, AI value…
Job titles are changing in the AI era. Maybe you’re a “builder,” or have “forward-deployed” tacked onto your role.Claude Code creator Boris Cherny had been thinking about these changes. He wrote on X that fields like engineering, product, and design were all melting into one — and that his own team could provide a lens into “what roles might look like in the future.”Cherny’s team has five archetypes, he wrote:The “Prototyper”: These workers create new ideas, “many of which don’t ship.”The “Builder”: These workers turn a prototype into a “production-grade product.”The “Sweeper”: These workers clean, simplify, and optimize performance.The “Grower”: These…
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “People say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?” Li, who was a technical lead on Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, was accused by his former employer last year of absconding with trade secrets to start Proception. But after months of trading legal blows, he…
The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence? Bacterial outbreaks. The liquid for liquid-cooled chips is a mixture of water and a substance that inhibits bacteria growth. To run the chips hotter, data center managers can change the mix to include more water, which absorbs heat better, but leads to nasty contamination that clogs the flow. To solve that, they flush the system, which can mean shutting down a rack for five or six hours at a potential cost of millions of dollars. Omen AI has a solution:…
OpenAI set up a “warroom” to investigate a flurry of user reports that its coding agent is hitting usage limits faster than usual.An update on OpenAI’s status page said that some users’ Codex limits are “depleting faster than expected” and that it was related to its “abuse and fraud prevention systems incorrectly rate limiting certain accounts.”Thibault Sottiaux, the engineering lead for OpenAI’s Codex, said on Sunday that the company implemented an across-the-board reset of user caps while it looked into the issue.”Codex team is in a warroom on a Sunday combing through logs and checking whether there is anything that…
Elon Musk celebrated his 55th trip around the sun on Sunday in what was perhaps the most on brand birthday celebration ever.The billionaire marked the occasion with his mother, Maye Musk, and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, who is the mother to four of his children.The celebration featured not one but two themed cakes: a SpaceX Starship rocket, complete with candles attached to the base to mimic engine ignition, and a miniature Moon base dotted with Lego astronauts standing in for the real humans Musk has long promised to send there.Maye Musk led the birthday tributes on X:Happy birthday to my…
Leonhard Soenke cofounded Throne, a creator economy startup, in 2021 to help influencers create wishlists where fans could buy and send them gifts.Five years later, Soenke and his cofounder Patrice Becker are setting out on a new venture. It’s not in the creator economy. Instead, it’s in the data center business.TAR, which stands for Transformative American Resources, is a new energy startup aiming to make data center power more efficient. Soenke told Business Insider that TAR recently raised a $27 million seed round at a $500 million valuation from an undisclosed strategic investor.From the outside, influencers and AI data centers…
It’s all hands on deck at SpaceX as the company plays catch-up in the AI race.Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX had deployed “a few dozen” top Starlink and Starship engineers to help overhaul its Grok model.”The SpaceXAI cadence of model and harness improvement is speeding up tremendously, particularly due to a few dozen of the top Starlink/Starship engineers shifting much of their time to AI,” wrote Musk in a post on X.The billionaire added that engineers from Cursor, the AI coding startup that SpaceX agreed this month to buy for $60 billion, were also working on the new…
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with 21-year-old cofounders, Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, based in New York. Their words have been edited for length and clarity.Rudy Arora: The goal wasn’t to build a million-dollar company we’d drop out of college for. We just wanted to create something we would find useful, maybe market it a little bit, and if it went well, pay for college with the profits.Sarthak Dhawan: Rudy and I grew up in the suburbs outside Dallas and met in middle school. We were always tinkering with random things together and trying to build stuff.Arora: Our…