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Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter might be a robot, but even he's not interested in AI music.

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.”

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case

Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

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Canva set its AI ambitions too high.

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:

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

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AI is now designing brand new biological viruses.

A new study published in the journal Science used genome language models to produce viruses we’ve never seen before in nature. The resulting bacteriophages pose no threat to humans. The research simultaneously raises hope for medical advances, while stoking fear that AI could enable the creation of new diseases and biological weapons.

Google’s AI shake-up puts Demis Hassabis where the company needs him most, insiders say

Demis Hassabis is shifting to a new role that plays to his interests — and is crucial to helping Google make big leaps ahead.

I'm a co-creator of Alexa and an AI expert. If AI singularity ever arrives, everyone will notice

Alexa co-creator and startup CEO William Tunstall-Pedoe said an AI singularity is unlikely, but that if it had arrived, everyone would know.

Can AI improve my parenting?

There are genuinely useful ways the technology can help with this. But Sam Altman’s ChatGPT tips are not among them

OpenAI will bring ChatGPT ads to Brazil and Mexico, and is adding a raft of fresh features

OpenAI enhances ChatGPT ads with new targeting tools and expansion into Brazil and Mexico, according to an email reviewed by Business Insider.

ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic’s Mythos

TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi K3