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Unity Announce New Album Comes Back To You… / Was There Ever Unity?: Hear “3 Weeks”
Oakland indie-pop band Unity have announced their second album, Comes Back To You.. / Was There Ever Unity?, and released its lead single, “3 Weeks”. The announcement marks the group’s return a decade after their self-titled 2016 debut, with the new track presenting a lively, deliberately rough-edged sound that recalls DIY indie pop. Unity are…
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Alarming study finds top chatbots more likely to repeat falsehoods from the left: ‘Truly astonishing’
ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude were more likely to fall for political falsehoods from the left, while Grok skewed right, a new misinformation study found.
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Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
Suno has released Studio 2.0, expanding its AI music-making software with features intended to make it resemble a conventional digital audio workstation. The update matters because it adds tools musicians expect, while also deepening the role of AI in tasks normally handled manually during music production. The main addition is MIDI support, allowing users to…
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BBC Inside Science
Researchers have announced synthetic viruses designed by artificial intelligence.
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend up to $20 million by March on electrically powered “shock gloves”, a non-lethal restraint device intended to subdue people through localised pain. The purchase has drawn attention to how the equipment works, its intended safeguards and the distinction between the gloves and Tasers or stun guns, which…
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Ticketmaster launches connected app in Google’s Gemini, a day after the AI assistant passed 1B monthly users
Ticketmaster has launched a connected app within Google’s Gemini AI assistant, allowing US users to search for concerts, sport, theatre and festivals through natural-language conversations. The move matters because it places Ticketmaster’s ticket inventory in an AI app that Google says has surpassed one billion monthly active users, potentially widening discovery for event organisers and…
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Apple is reportedly turning to publishers for help with Siri AI
Apple is reportedly negotiating with news publishers to use their content in a redesigned, AI-powered Siri, expected to launch with iOS 27 later this year. The move matters because it could give Siri more up-to-date information while helping Apple close the gap with competing AI assistants. The proposed multi-year agreements would reportedly compensate publishers when…
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Spotify has roped the indie publisher Kobalt into its AI platform for covers and remixes
Spotify has added independent music publisher Kobalt to its planned AI platform for fan-made covers and remixes, following an earlier partnership with Universal Music Group. The agreement matters because participating artists’ songs could be used under licence, with Spotify positioning the tools as a source of additional royalties and discovery rather than unlicensed AI use.…
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Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark
Instagram has introduced a redesigned text-only logo, or wordmark, replacing a version that had been used for around a decade. The company says the update is intended to make the brand look sharper and more modern while retaining a connection to its established identity, reflecting a broader effort to refresh Instagram’s visual presentation. Instagram head…
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This JCB doesn’t dig – it does 406 mph
JCB’s hydrogen-powered Hydromax racer has set an FIA-confirmed world land speed record for a hydrogen internal-combustion car, averaging 406.320 mph (653.909 kph) over two runs at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. The achievement is intended to demonstrate hydrogen combustion’s potential, particularly for heavy machinery where JCB argues batteries are less practical because of operating time and…