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The Atlantic Maps 21 Million Songs Used to Train AI — Creators Can Now Search the Data
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner built a public, searchable database of four music datasets — totaling over 21 million tracks — used to train AI models. Here's what it reveals.
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OpenAI Lands Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer in Pre-IPO Talent Blitz
OpenAI has recruited Noam Shazeer, one of the original co-authors of the 2017 Attention Is All You Need paper, from Google DeepMind — a hire that signals the company's ambitions heading into its IPO.
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Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 US Ban: What the Export Control Fight Means for AI Creators
The US government forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over national security concerns — and the backlash from cybersecurity researchers is raising bigger questions about who controls AI model access.
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Nvidia's AI Coding Agents Now Train Robots to Handle Physical Hardware
Nvidia has built a self-improvement system where teams of AI coding agents autonomously direct robot training — teaching machines to install GPUs and cut zip ties without human programming.
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Midjourney's First Hardware Product Is a Full-Body Ultrasound Scanner, Not an AI Image Tool
Midjourney CEO David Holz has unveiled The Midjourney Scanner, a ring-sensor ultrasound device for full-body imaging — the company's first physical product and a sharp pivot from AI image generation.
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Adobe Adds AI Assistants to Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator — and Firefly Now Remembers Your Projects
Adobe is rolling out bespoke AI assistants across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io in public beta, while a redesigned Firefly studio gains persistent project memory.
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G7 Leaders Warn U.S. AI Kill-Switch Risk Is Real After Anthropic Fable 5 Blackout
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised the alarm at the G7 after the Trump administration's abrupt export order took Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline globally — including for U.S. users.
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Pinterest's 'Ask Pinterest' App Brings Conversational AI to Visual Shopping Discovery
Pinterest has launched Ask Pinterest, an experimental standalone app that lets users find products and inspiration through a conversational AI interface — a signal of where visual discovery is heading.
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Big Tech's Federal AI Preemption Push: What a Single U.S. Law Could Mean for Creators
Tech lobbyists are pushing hard for a federal AI law that would override state regulations. For AI-art creators, the outcome could determine which tools stay legal, how platforms handle content, and what liability rules apply.
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ChatGPT Falls Below 50% Market Share for First Time, But Still Leads with 1.1B Monthly Users
ChatGPT's share of the AI assistant market has dropped below 50% for the first time, according to TechCrunch — but with 1.1 billion monthly users, it still dwarfs Gemini's 662M and Claude's 245M.
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SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Platform Cursor for $60 Billion in Stock
SpaceX is buying Cursor, the AI coding assistant, for $60 billion in stock — a bet on enterprise AI that signals how seriously the rocket company is chasing OpenAI and Anthropic.
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