Jacob Kastrenakes

The New York Times says Twitter has more-or-less ended negotiations with the big music labels for licensing deals that would have covered any music that was uploaded by users. Most social networks have agreements like this, but Twitter doesn’t.

And CEO Daniel Ek is already teasing the news: a “completely redesigned” home feed. Maybe this is the rumored TikTok-style approach we keep hearing about.

The New York Post says Apple has “started to cut ties with hundreds of contractors.” The idea is to cut costs (and jobs) without explicitly laying people off.

9to5Mac has renders of what they believe the iPhone 15 Pro will look like: curved edges, slimmer bezels, and a USB-C port at the bottom on what otherwise appears to be a refined version of the iPhone 14 Pro. Oh, and the camera bump looks bigger than ever. What’s Apple putting inside that thing?

Colin Meloy asked ChatGPT to write chords and lyrics for a new song from his band, The Decemberists. The result is a fairly lifeless, cliche-ridden composition that reads like a parody... and Meloy went ahead and recorded it. You can listen over at his Substack. His takeaway from the experience: “[ChatGPT] has data, it has information, but it has no intuition.”

The show, which joined our friends at the Vox Media Podcast Network last year, looks inside the process of how businesses get funding, speaking with entrepreneurs and investors to see how it’s really done. New episodes arrive every Wednesday.