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jenic_on Spotify reportedly removed over 75M AI-slop songs from its platform

Spotify executive, Sam Duboff, claims that the company has removed over 75 million AI-generate tracks from its platform.

jenic_on User loses 25 years of data after a Microsoft account hack, with no way back

Streamer Joshua Khane said on X that Microsoft permanently locked him out of his account after it was compromised.

jenic_on Spotify now has an AI assistant you can talk to

Spotify adds a new AI voice chat feature that can play songs for you and answer various related questions.

jenic_on Google's new hand-wave reCAPTCHA can be bypassed with a stock photo

Google's new reCAPTCHA method that asks users to record a hand-waving gesture can be bypassed with a stock photo and OBS virtual camera.

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A new AI company called Subquadratic just launched SubQ, claiming a 12 million token context window at a fraction of the cost of leading models. The community is skeptical.

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Google is building a way for AI agents to interact with websites directly through Chrome, without scraping pages or burning through tokens guessing at the DOM.

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OpenAI and Anthropic both announced separate joint ventures today aimed at embedding their AI tools directly inside the portfolio companies of some of the world’s largest private equity firms.