"unauthorized AI voice clones, deepfakes, and any other form of vocal replicas or impersonation are not allowed [on Spotify]"

But instrumental tracks on Spotify's "Piano jazz" and "Yoga meditation" playlists will be 90% AI-generated by Spotify affiliates so it pays itself the streaming royalties.

To clarify, DDEX isn't "an upcoming industry standard for identifying and labeling AI music in credits"; it's how labels already transmit metadata of the thousands of songs they add to streaming services daily. The DDEX standards will add AI flags.
ddex.net/about-ddex/

Not as a car maker, but as a stock-hyping grift approaching scam king Mullen Automotive. It only delivered a handful of $309,000 FF91s to friends and influencers, now it pretends it's going to make an "AI-MPV" when it only has $9M cash!

'Eighty genes were dramatically distinct; some are known to influence the size of living dogs and wolves ... many other genes also helped set them apart from other wolves. “We don’t know what that number is,” he said. “It could be 20, or it could be 2,000.”' Nobody in the article says "millions".

Banks: don't back PLN's polluting coal plans Children in Indonesia are suffering from bronchitis, tuberculosis and even dying because of PLN’s greedy fossil fuel expansion. PLN is Indonesia’s biggest electricity provider. But instead of generati

Why do banks (and _insurance companies_ !!) continue to fund fossil fuel projects when renewables are cheaper and less risky? action.eko.org/a/banks-don-...

A Long Goodbye to Baxter, a Gentle Giant Among Robots Baxter is a legend in these early days of advanced robotics. But now its maker, Rethink Robotics, is folding.

@mrmattsimon.bsky.social I was at a coffee bar with only disposable cups thinking "Why don't we have dishwashing robots yet? Wasn't there a friendly 'Baxter' robot that could do this, before Covid?"
Thanks for www.wired.com/story/a-long... . Surely it's doable 13 years later.

Such a great graph. I think your work and PAGES2k are the basis/inspiration for various temperature record graphs on Wikipedia like commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co... and commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Te...