The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song

The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song

Admittedly, our testing artists did push Jen beyond the boundaries of what a “normal” person might ask in a query, veering more toward a “record store clerk” level of familiarity with recorded sound. Cleveland, for instance, failed to get anything good out of a query for “mid-tempo California garage rock influenced by ’70s Indonesian pop,”…

Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

For example, I searched “competing visions google openai” and saw a TechCrunch piece at the top of Google News. Below it were articles from The Atlantic and Bloomberg comparing the rival companies’ approaches to AI development. But then, the fourth article to appear for that search, nestled right below these more reputable websites, was another…

Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

After major investor Volvo decided to decrease its stake and cut funding for Polestar early this year, the EV company went in search of $1.3 billion of new funding. It raised a $950 million lifeline three-year loan from a banking syndicate led by BNP Paribas, and told investors it has plans to continue raising the…

Meta’s Pay-for-Privacy Model Is Illegal, Says EU

Meta’s Pay-for-Privacy Model Is Illegal, Says EU

For the past eight months, Europeans uncomfortable with the way Meta tracks their data for personalized advertising have had another option: They can pay the tech giant up to €12.99 ($14) per month for their privacy instead. Launched in November 2023, Meta introduced its “pay or consent” subscription model as fines, legal cases, and regulatory…

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a $75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment, is providing users with downloadable HTML files of articles published by paywalled journalistic outlets. Prompting the service’s Assistant bot with the URL of this WIRED story about the AI-powered search service Perplexity plagiarizing one of…