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Music streaming service Spotify is getting new AI assistant capabilities, so you’ll be able to ask contextual questions about the content you’re listening to. You’ll be able to have a “back-and-forth conversation” with Spotify to ask questions about music, podcasts and audiobooks in a feature now rolling out to beta users.In a video previewing the feature, Spotify shows a text box in the middle of the beta app, labeled “Ask for some music” or “Talk to Spotify,” which lets you ask questions like “how many times have I listened to Bad Bunny?”While testing the new feature, CNET was presented with…

When an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system produces biased output, fails an audit, or triggers an unexpected action, accountability often fragments. Data governance teams point to the model. AI governance teams point to upstream data quality, lineage, or usage policies they did not control.  Both may be right, that is the issue.  Enterprises are scaling AI in an environment where data, models, applications, agents, and workflows are becoming tightly connected. Yet many organizations still govern data and AI through separate operating models. Data governance is often centered on the asset. AI governance is often centered on the model, application, or use case. Risk builds in the handoff between…

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secretsOpenAI purportedly stole IP to develop its own consumer hardware. (CNBC)+ The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple staff to access the information. (BBC)+ And requested trade secrets in job interviews with Apple workers. (Guardian)+ Apple also sued two former employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan. (Reuters $)2 A Nobel-winning chemist is leaving the US to lead an AI lab in ChinaOmar Yaghi will head an institute using AI to discover new materials. (LA Times $)+ He…

If you work in connectivity, cloud and AI infrastructure, data centers, and investment, you know that Capacity Europe is a must-attend event. This annual opportunity to connect with regional partners and prospects across the industry is a highlight for our team. We’ve compiled a selection of our telecom experts’ insights on major topics to know before you go. Get ready to make the most of this conference with the resources in this post.

With the exploding popularity of generative artificial intelligence, many open-source models are now available online for anyone to adapt for their task, such as generating product renderings in a certain artistic style. But these models also find their way into the hands of nefarious actors who may optimize them to produce illegal content, like hate speech or child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This is a growing problem — the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 1.5 million reports of AI-generated CSAM in 2025, an increase from 67,000 in 2024.Engineers usually test AI for harmful capabilities by prompting the…

Meta is spending at hyperscaler scale on artificial intelligence infrastructure—$125 billion to $145 billion in 2026 capital expenditures alone. Investors have asked the question every investor asks at this scale: What if it doesn’t work? Mark Zuckerberg’s answer, delivered at Meta’s annual shareholder meeting on May 27, reframed the risk. If Meta ends up with excess compute capacity from its AI buildout, external compute sales are “definitely on the table.” In July, reporting revealed that Meta has moved beyond floating the option. According to Bloomberg and Reuters, the company is reportedly developing a commercial cloud infrastructure business designed to sell…

Just over two years ago, I launched the Now Go Build CTO Fellowship with nine technology leaders working in disaster management and climate resilience. Since then, the program has grown to 24 Fellows from 18 countries across four continents, tackling problems in healthcare, education, and food security.Today, we’re releasing the second season of our documentary series. Across five episodes, you’ll hear from Brendan Michaelsen, Ezekiel Brooks, Maryam Bello, Abheejit Khandagale, Adnan Ahmed Qureshi, Miriam Chickering, Alexandra Kroenert, Gokul Kumar, Jassen Stanchev, Rosius Ndimofor, Oluwafunmilayo Ajakaiye, Djime Sacko, Rajasekhar Kaliki, and Jay Patel. They’re building safe digital spaces for survivors of…

Patagonia draws people in for obvious reasons. The mountains are dramatic, the glaciers seem to stretch forever, and some of the world’s best multi-day hikes happen here. What often catches first-time visitors off guard is how carefully everything is managed. At the main park entrances, rangers spend as much time explaining conservation rules as they do handing over maps. Information boards describe local wildlife, recent restoration work, and why certain trails or campsites occasionally close. After a few days here, it becomes clear that protecting the landscape isn’t treated as a separate project. It’s simply embedded into the fabric of…

Welcome back! In Part 1 we set the scene: a secure handshake rests on two pillars (key exchange and authentication), and quantum computers threaten both. Now we zoom in on the first and most urgent one: key exchange. Why urgent? Two words that should genuinely keep you up at night: harvest now, decrypt later. Let’s unpack that, then introduce the two algorithms that will spend the next few posts going head-to-head. No commands yet; for now, let’s build the intuition. Diffie-Hellman: the quiet hero Diffie-Hellman (DH) is the unsung hero behind nearly every secure channel on the internet. The idea is genuinely elegant: two parties each…

Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful AI options for your everyday workflow. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the leaderboard. But AI capabilities are ever-evolving, and measurement needs to follow suit. As part of our July release, we have adopted the Harbor framework, which includes an updated version of the benchmarking agent used to…