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Netflix wants you to watch ‘Clips,’ its TikTok-like vertical video feed

Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by sharing highlights from original Netflix programming.

Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI

As AI-generated artists and tracks flood music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” badge to help listeners more easily identify authentic human artists. To receive the badge, artists must meet certain criteria. Spotify looks for an identifiable artist presence both on and off platform, like concert dates, merch, and linked […]

Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week

Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its gen AI tools

Instagram cracks down on content aggregators

The update targets content aggregators that don't post original content and instead simply re-upload others' posts.

SPRIND opens applications for €125M competition to build Europe’s first frontier AI labs

The Next Frontier AI Challenge, announced at EurIPS in December, explicitly tells applicants not to try to catch up with OpenAI, but to leapfrog to the next architectural S-curve, with up to €1 billion in follow-on funding dangled for the three winning labs. SPRIND, Germany’s federal agency for breakthrough innovation, opened applications today for its […]This story continues at The Next Web

China launches months-long campaign against AI misuse targeting deepfakes, fraud, and disinformation

The Cyberspace Administration’s annual ‘Qinglang’ campaign arrives in a materially different regulatory environment to last year’s edition, and in the same week the White House accused China of running ‘industrial-scale’ AI theft operations. China has launched a months-long enforcement campaign targeting the misuse of artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. The campaign, initiated by the Cyberspace […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk tells court he was a "fool" for funding OpenAI

Elon Musk told a court on Wednesday that he was a "fool" for providing funding to launch ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman bring their rivalry to court

Lawyers for Open AI and Microsoft countered that there was no evidence of a promise to maintain Open AI as a charity, and ...

Elon Musk testifies OpenAI should return to its nonprofit roots

The world's richest person is claiming that OpenAI's leaders betrayed the public by abandoning the nonprofit mission meant to benefit humanity.

Exclusive-Only Elon Musk can fire Elon Musk from SpaceX, filing shows

By Echo Wang and Isla Binnie NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) - SpaceX is telling investors that no one can fire Elon Musk from ...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman's courtroom clash over ChatGPT’s future turns into $150B battle for control of AI’s soul

Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in a $150 billion federal trial over whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit founding mission ...

Elon Musk blasts OpenAI 'bait-and-switch' during heated Day 2 testimony

Elon Musk testified that he texted Sam Altman, "what the hell is going on," after learning about Microsoft's $10 billion investment in OpenAI.

Elon Musk testifies he was a 'fool' to fund OpenAI

The billionaire said that OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman wasn’t honest about nonprofit mission.

Elon Musk to return to witness stand for cross-examination by OpenAI's lawyer

By Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai OAKLAND, California, April 30 (Reuters) - Elon Musk is due to return to the witness stand on Thursday for a second day of cross-examination by Sam Altman's lawyer,

6 Best Elon Musk Investments to Buy

Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man, has been a divisive figure in global business and politics. Musk supporters point out ...

Elon Musk gets combative on the stand during day two of jury trial against OpenAI

Elon Musk fired back at OpenAI’s lawyer in a tense cross-examination during the second day of the long-awaited trial that ...

Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin Capital. Jeffrey Katzenberg, managing partner of WndrCo and co-founder of DreamWorks, has joined the company's board. The round builds on early backing from a roster of AI luminaries that includ

Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures

The AGCM accepted binding commitments from all three chatbot providers, establishing a concrete benchmark for what ‘adequate’ hallucination transparency must look like in practice, and a 120-day compliance window before potential fines. Italy’s competition and consumer protection authority, the AGCM, has closed its investigations into three AI chatbot providers, China’s DeepSeek, France’s Mistral AI, and […]This story continues at The Next Web

Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system

The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart of the robotaxi industry. The vehicles driving themselves to pick up passengers […]This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price

Prices have surged from roughly 4 million yuan late last year to 7 million yuan ($1 million) today, driven by the Supermicro co-founder’s arrest, tighter enforcement, and voracious demand from Chinese AI companies unwilling to hold restricted hardware on their own books. NVIDIA’s B300 AI servers are now selling in China for approximately 7 million […]This story continues at The Next Web