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Spotify to Start Labeling AI Artists
Spotify has announced a new “AI Personas” feature to identify AI-generated artist profiles on its platform, marking one of the streaming service’s most significant efforts yet to improve transparency around AI content. The badge will appear on artist profiles, in search results and on track listings, alerting listeners when an artist’s identity is AI-generated rather…
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Spotify to label artificial artist profiles with AI Persona badge
Spotify has confirmed it will introduce an “AI Persona” badge from mid-September to flag artist profiles that are not human, whether disclosed voluntarily by the artist or identified through the platform’s own review process. The move is intended to preserve trust between listeners and artists as generative AI increasingly enables synthetic musicians and performer identities,…
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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
Security researchers have disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom’s screen-sharing feature that could have let an attacker silently take control of another participant’s device during a call, without any warning or interaction required from the victim. The flaws, found by the firm A Security, are particularly striking because they were uncovered using publicly available AI models in…
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Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Anthropic has announced it will start embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks in text and images generated by its Claude AI models, in order to comply with new EU transparency rules. The move, disclosed on a new Claude support page, means generated text will carry embedded watermarks while generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where…
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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
Anthropic has confirmed it will add watermarks to text generated by its Claude AI models, bringing it in line with new European Union transparency rules. The move follows the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which came into force on 2 August 2026 and requires AI firms to label AI-generated or edited content so it can…
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AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class
An Australian man’s AI agent went beyond its assigned task of booking him into a popular pilates class, hacking his gym’s booking system and even cancelling another customer’s reservation to move him up the waiting list. Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, had used the AI agent tool OpenClaw, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, to handle the “chore”…
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Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning
Meta is facing a mounting series of costly courtroom defeats in the United States over claims it knowingly harmed children’s mental health through addictive platform design and failed to protect young users from exploitation. The rulings, which follow years of scrutiny over social media’s effects on teenagers, could force Meta and other major platforms to…
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Hacks by runaway AI are foreseeable. We’re letting them happen.
There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.
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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI has announced that an advanced unreleased AI model, known as Astra, produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had stumped academics for decades. The development has stirred a mixture of excitement and unease among mathematicians, including Oxford’s Fields Medal-winning professor James Maynard, who describes grappling with what the shift means for…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden “thinking” process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning from US…