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ElevenLabs has launched Eleven Music, their new AI music generation service, and they say they've done it with a new strategy: don't get sued. While competitors Suno and Udio are in litigation with major labels for allegedly training on copyrighted material, ElevenLabs secured licensing deals with Merlin Network (a digital rights agency for independent labels) and Kobalt Music Group before launching. That's revolutionary thinking in AI circles. Continue Reading →
Pre-Prompt Meta-Prompt
The words we use to control generative AI have become competitive assets. In a recent cookbook entry, OpenAI detailed “meta‑prompting,” a method that uses a more powerful model to write or refine a prompt for another model. Equally important are “pre‑prompts,” system-level instructions that set the model’s identity, tone, and behavior before any user input is received. These may sound like technical nuances, but together, they will shape how enterprises deploy, govern, and scale AI across the organization. Let's explore. Continue Reading →
According to internal memos reported by Wired and Business Insider, Meta is testing a new interview format that invites select candidates to solve programming challenges with AI tools, exactly as they would on the job. Meta engineers are running mock interviews to evaluate how this changes both candidate performance and interviewer assessment. The logic is bulletproof: if your developers use AI tools every single day at work, why are you pretending these tools don't exist during hiring? Continue Reading →
Reports surfaced this week on social media suggesting that OpenAI is reportedly testing internally a “router” function that automatically selects the best model from their growing stable of options based on what you’re asking for. No more staring at a dropdown menu wondering whether your medical question needs the reasoning power of o3 or if GPT-4o will suffice. Continue Reading →
Both OpenAI and Google DeepMind announced gold-medal performances at the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO) this week, correctly answering five out of six questions in one of the world's most challenging high school math competitions. The achievement marks a significant leap from Google's silver-medal performance last year and represents the first time AI systems competed using "informal" methods (processing questions in natural language) rather than requiring human translation into machine-readable code. Continue Reading →

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