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    Apple Music is turning setlists into playlists.

    A new feature lets artists create playlists with the songs they’ve played at recent shows. It sounds like it’ll make it a lot easier to get familiar with all the songs an artist is going to play before you see them on tour.

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    Emma Roth
    Intel is laying off around 1,300 workers in Oregon.

    The layoffs affect workers at all four of Intel’s Oregon campuses, according to a WARN notice posted online. The job cuts come as part of Intel’s broader layoffs that will impact more than 15,000 employees.

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    Emma Roth
    The problem with custom AI chatbots.

    While it might be fun to interact with Character.AI’s user-created chatbots, a report from Wired shows the challenges of taking down chatbots that impersonate people without their consent, including a teen who was murdered in 2006:

    Given that Character.AI can sometimes take a week to investigate and remove a persona that violates the platform’s terms, a bot can still operate for long enough to upset someone whose likeness is being used. But it might not be enough for a person to claim real “harm” from a legal perspective, experts say.