AI profitability favors enterprise over consumer scale. Anthropic reaches profit as OpenAI plans IPO. Which model wins with public market investors and why it matters.
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) just announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add-on for Premium subscribers. Artists will be able to opt out of the program, but those who do participate will collect royalties […]
Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-generated content draws from your Spotify listening history, as well as info from apps you connect to it, like your email inbox, calendar, and notes. Spotify says its AI can […]
Smart glasses sales surged in 2025 as Apple, Google, and Meta pursued smartphone-connected wearable AI ecosystems.
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Hollywood is cooked – or so a growing number of people on social media would like you to believe. Their purported proof: AI-generated clips of Daniel Craig riding a Vespa […]
Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets
Anthropic’s explosive growth reflects massive AI alliances, cloud investments, talent wars, and infrastructure diversification strategies.
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.