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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service’s users that they have now been identified.

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.

After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

The AI-powered audiobook generation won't bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.

Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.

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