The same AI tech that powers Google’s NotebookLM can now be used to generate two to 10-minute podcast-style summaries of PDFs in Drive. It’s English-language only for now, and limited to Workspace users and subscribers to Google’s One AI Pro and Ultra plans.
[Workspace Updates Blog]
The ¥55,000 (about $355) console is approximately 25 percent cheaper than the standard discless edition, but requires a Japanese PlayStation account, is region-locked, and only offers the Japanese language too. Still, all that money saved will go a long way towards buying a cheaper Japan-only version of the Switch 2 to go alongside it.
It’s the latest legal ruling that training on copyrighted materials without permission violates said copyright, ignoring OpenAI’s argument that users should be the ones held liable.
German music rights society GEMA filed the case on behalf of the lyricists behind nine of the country’s biggest hits, though OpenAI says it’s considering an appeal.
Not to get too self-referential by pointing you back to yesterday’s comment of the day, but commenter indignantgoat nails the more serious version of that same point:
indignantgoat:
It would be simpler if I were still young and dumb enough to think politics wasn’t inter-related with all the other things I enjoy reading about. Alas.
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“I don’t want to say no forever,” Apple head of services Eddy Cue told Screen International, “but there are no plans.”
There are plenty of signs that Apple has at least explored ads for its streamer in the past, but right now it seems content with price hikes to pay the bills.
[Screen International]
