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Sony and UMG are suing Suno again, this time over v6
Suno’s newest model was supposed to be a clean slate. Sony and Universal Music Group say it’s the same old problem with a new version number attached. The…
Google drops Lyria 3.5 into the Gemini app, and won’t say what trained it
Google will let you generate a birthday song in the Gemini app now. It won’t tell you whose music taught the model how. That’s the shape of the…
AI video is already pushing out China’s actors and livestreamers
Ninety-five percent of the roughly 128,000 short dramas published in China in the first quarter of 2026 were AI-generated. That’s the figure from the China Netcasting Services Association,…
Stop trusting the animal videos in your feed [2026]
Mibbby Butler thought she’d found her cat. In April, a stranger texted her a photo of Brooklyn sitting on a kitchen counter, wrapped in a girl’s arms, four…
Alibaba’s Wan3.0 makes 30-second AI videos from text, images and PDFs
Thirty seconds. That’s the number that matters in Alibaba’s new video model, and it’s exactly double what Wan2.5 could manage. Wan3.0 is in beta now, and the input…
They Gave Their Careers to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Arrived
Luis DeSantiago found out he’d been turned into a deepfake while pouring coffee. It was March 12. The substitute teacher from Los Banos, California was working his other…
Researchers warn AI fruit slop is rotting kids’ brains
The most-watched videos on my niece’s tablet last month starred a sentient watermelon working through a love triangle. Three weeks later the same feed served up a strawberry…
Spotify starts tagging AI artists next month, and the labels have teeth
Spotify has an AI artist with nearly 168,700 followers on its platform, and until mid-September nothing on that profile will tell you a human didn’t record the vocals.…
Oh Lord, the AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Real News Now
An AI newsroom with zero human reporters in the room beat a wire of trained journalists to a story by more than three hours. That’s the part worth…
