Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too

Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The “Talk to Spotify” feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify’s mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the […]

AI Won’t Replace Everyone. That’s Not The Good News

The story is starting to get more specific than the usual “robots are coming for jobs” narrative. AI is beginning to sort the labor market by task, age, skill level and geography.

A Few Layers To The Self-Driving Onion

AI, redundant systems, and synthetic data are advancing safer, fully autonomous self-driving vehicles.

New York State halts construction of all new data centers

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.

Ethan Mollick Sees Dusk Settling

Ethan Mollick argues AI is rapidly shifting from chatbots toward autonomous agents that humans increasingly manage.

What IBM’s Revenue Miss Tells CIOs About AI Spending

IBM’s Q2 miss wasn’t weak AI demand. It was budget rotation to hardware. Here’s what the shift from software to infrastructure spend means for CIOs

Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius’s compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?

Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant

Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.

Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit

OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world’s richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet – from Apple. OpenAI’s expensive hardware bet is what’s on the line. Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, filed in Northern […]