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Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb Works
Spotify staff could be listening to a funerary dirge in their own Spotify Wraps. The company announced it was making sweeping staff cuts across the board, reducing global headcount by around 17 per cent. Merry Christmas. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek blamed the layoffs on slowing economic growth and how “capital has become more expensive.” More…
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Apple’s Top Podcasts of 2023 Reveal Bloody Murder Is Still Hot
Apple unveiled its most popular podcasts of 2023 on Tuesday, revealing that true crime’s chokehold on the platform continues for another year. True crime took first place in two categories, with Crime Junkie as the most popular podcast for the second year in a row, and Scamanda as the most popular new show. The top…
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Sam Altman Is So Back at OpenAI, but Its Board Is So Not Back
OpenAI’s CEO returns to the helm alongside Greg Brockman. The new board is less AI doom, more economic boom.
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YouTube Wants to Use AI to Let You Mimic Your Favourite Musician
As AI-generated songs run rampant across the internet, YouTube looks to get in front of it by legally licensing out artist voices. The platform developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that would reproduce the vocals of musical artists, allowing fans to have them sing whatever they want, but talks with major labels have apparently…