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Published May 21, 2026, 7:45 PM

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
Published May 21, 2026, 7:19 PM

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.
Published May 21, 2026, 7:16 PM

MIT Tech Review
Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal representation by the camera. The landscape of storytelling co…
Published May 21, 2026, 5:30 PM

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
Published May 21, 2026, 3:27 PM

The AI-powered audiobook generation won't bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.
Published May 21, 2026, 3:27 PM

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
Published May 21, 2026, 2:30 PM

The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written…
Published May 21, 2026, 2:00 PM

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.
Published May 21, 2026, 2:00 PM

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.
Published May 21, 2026, 1:52 PM

One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Published May 21, 2026, 1:38 PM

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.
Published May 21, 2026, 12:28 AM

The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Published May 21, 2026, 12:21 AM

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.
Published May 20, 2026, 10:26 PM

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.
Published May 20, 2026, 10:03 PM

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.
Published May 20, 2026, 9:29 PM

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
Published May 20, 2026, 8:28 PM

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.
Published May 20, 2026, 7:47 PM

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.
Published May 20, 2026, 5:24 PM

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership, and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.
Published May 20, 2026, 3:04 PM

TechCrunch
AI search has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI.
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