Amazon Alexa
…now create AI-generated podcasts Emma Roth May 18 Alexa is moving into Amazon․com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy May 13 Amazon’s Panos Panay addresses new Fire phone rumors Dominic Preston May…
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Labor and worker’s rights in tech
…The previously-rumored cuts follow an accidental calendar invite sent last night. They come after 14,000 corporate jobs were cut in October, attributed partially to advances in AI. This latest round…
Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the fight for high-quality audio
…Now we’re able to say, with common platforms, common algorithms, AI — think of them as sort of AI units — we can create different experiences for our own products, and we can…
Samsung’s Fold8 Ultra is its most ambitious yet
While we wait for Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market. I just spent three hours with my hands on the new Z…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…On the product side, our front end is a set of experiences built at different times, where discovery, relevance, and social are not first-class, and players have to work to find…
Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime
…But when you put AI into it, now, all of a sudden, you have this human element that AI gives you. I think, with our products in neighborhoods and, again, you have…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…I think AI has as close to product-market fit in enterprise as you can get with something changing as fast as AI. There are a bunch of databases that corporations control…
Audio and Podcast News
…After launching the Verified by Spotify badge for musicians a few weeks ago, the service now has a sticker for podcasters who actually exist in real life, as AI-generated podslop floods…
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
…You may recall that in April, SpaceX announced it made a commitment to maybe buy the AI coding company, which would give SpaceX a way to compete with enterprise AI products made…
Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy
…OpenAI is rumored to be considering an IPO itself. There are only billions of dollars at stake. And so naturally, there’s a lot of internal tech gossip coming to light. Questions…