Murphy Campbell is a folk singer from the mountains of western North Carolina. She plays banjo and dulcimer, records old Appalachian ballads (some written by distant relatives), and posts videos of herself performing in the woods. She has about 7,800 monthly listeners on Spotify. She is exactly the kind of artist the music industry’s copyright infrastructure was designed to protect. Continue Reading →
Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get custom music generation via Lyria 3, as well as customizable AI avatars and increased limits: Pro subscribers get 50 videos per month, while AI Ultra subscribers get up to 1,000 video generations per month. Continue Reading →
OpenAI is partnering with advertising automation platform Smartly to bring conversational ads to ChatGPT. These interactive ad units will respond to users directly, turning advertisements into secondary chatbot dialogues within ChatGPT's interface. Continue Reading →
Through a packaging error, Anthropic accidentally published roughly 512,000 lines of internal source code for Claude Code, its AI coding assistant. Within hours, the code was scraped, mirrored, and shared more than 100,000 times. Continue Reading →
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