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“Together, the companies will develop entirely new music experiences that reimagine how artists and fans can connect,” according to a press release. “The agreement ensures that BMG artists and songwriters who choose to participate have their rights protected and are compensated for their music, while also settling prior use of BMG recordings and publishing works.”

Chloé Bakalar departed OpenAI last month, less than a year after joining OpenAI as its head of ethics, according to a report from the Financial Times. A source tells the outlet that there currently isn’t a replacement for Bakalar, who previously served as the chief ethicist at Meta for over three years.

Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named Joseph Weizenbaum, who built the bot almost as a magic trick — and then couldn’t believe how many people fell for it. David Berry and Mark Marino, two members of a team dedicated to restoring and understanding ELIZA, explain how Weizenbaum created the virtual conversant, why he came to regret it, and what ELIZA can teach us about life in the AI age.

OpenAI announced that the new app is available in preview on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and includes ChatGPT along with Work and Codex.

Meta acquired the agentic AI startup for $2 billion last year and has already added some of Manus’ tools into its platforms. But now, Manus has announced that it will “return to operating as an independent company” after China blocked the deal.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed to work alongside other models in AI agents, targeting specific jobs like code review, answering billing questions, and security alert monitoring. It’s the latest release in Nvidia’s Nemotron family of “truly open source” AI models, as the chipmaker champions open AI while its rivals develop their own silicon.

A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.”

The now-former chief scientist of Google DeepMind has shared a pic of the HP laptop he turned in on the way out the door. While he notes that he also had a MacBook to use at home, his “second (& primary)” machine looks to be a five- or six-year old HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook.

We’ve spent the last month vibe coding our own corners of the internet. The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Hayden Field join David to talk about their use of Gemini, Codex, and Claude Code to build 90s-themed personal websites, vegetable-sharing systems, and photo boards. It wasn’t always easy, and we didn’t get everything done, but with a little AI and a lot of prompting, we made it work.

Google-backed AI startup Promise has brought on Backrooms executive producer Chris White to develop Touch Grass, a dead internet theory-inspired horror about a tech worker who discovers a secret digital reality populated by strange copes of people from the real world.

Yelp said it is partnering with OpenAI to let users book tables or join waitlists without having to leave the chatbot. ChatGPT already uses photos, reviews, and other information from the platform when sourcing recommendations.

Muse Glimmer — essentially an open-weight version of Meta’s Muse Spark — is a 30 billion parameter model that can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, allowing users to generate code, text, and images. While bigger parameter counts doesn’t necessarily mean better performance, Glimmer’s 30 billion is notably smaller than models from Chinese rivals, including Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max (2.4 trillion) and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 (2.8 trillion).

This episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World features people weirdly excited about internet radio and online gaming. But it’s this bit about creating a digital avatar and trying to capture your personality in code that feels oddly prescient in the age of AI chatbots, but also deeply dystopian.

In his first video after expressing his feelings of over-reliance on LLMs, Green clarifies the AI usage policy at his education company Complexly, stating “no one is using AI to create Crash Course videos”. He also laid out a new AI policy for himself, and encouraged other creators to do the same.

9to5Google reports that Android Canary 2608 includes an interface for generating custom lockscreen clock designs using AI prompts, similar to Android’s “Create My Widget” feature. It also includes options for uploading a reference image or using “Ideas” Google suggests, but according to 9to5Google “server-side functionality” for the feature isn’t live yet.

It’s the first platform to adopt Musixmatch’s new Sentinel detection service designed explicitly for generative AI. Its sizable database pulls from over 200,000 publishers, including the big three, to identify copyrighted lyrics and compositions. And importantly, it doesn’t just scan prompts and inputs, but also the resulting outputs.

He’s continuing his post-helmet media whirlwind and stopped by the Chanel Connects podcast, where the topic briefly turned toward AI. “I’m not really interested in the creative usage of artificial intelligence,” he says, noting that part of the creative process is experimentation and discovery, “The number one goal of this process is surprise.”

The company has reportedly slashed its revenue forecast for 2026 by a third after relying too heavily on frontier models from other providers to drive AI features on the platform. According to Startup Daily, here’s what CEO Melanie Perkins had to say in an update to shareholders: