AI Music
Music
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
Joyce, a native New Yorker, found her dream studio in Manhattan only to discover the property was significantly…
AI Music
Music
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal
Google DeepMind has announced a $75 million investment in A24, marking a significant financial commitment from the tech…
AI Music
Music
“If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate shit, you’re disgusting”: SZA calls out the “vultures” training AI on tracks without permission
Over 12 million tracks are currently being used to train AI systems without permission, and SZA has found…
AI Video & Creative
Creative
Google Deepmind and A24 team up on AI filmmaking research
Google Deepmind and A24 have announced a long-term research partnership involving a roughly $75 million investment from the…
AI Ethics & Society
Ethics
Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)
Joseph interviews Jake Hanrahan, founder of Popular Front, regarding the difficulties conflict reporters face when platforms like YouTube…
AI Video & Creative
Creative
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass rates increase on 26 June. Event details The conference takes place on 4…
AI Ethics & Society
Ethics
Are Public Libraries Becoming Children’s Libraries?
A proposal in Alaska to turn a public library into a children’s library was withdrawn after local officials…
AI Music
Music
World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot
A ticket for the 2026 FIFA World Cup arrived in a fan’s inbox with a QR code and…
AI Music
Music
“This is not an assembly line. I’m literally just a girl making art”: For DJ_Dave, there are no musical shortcuts
Sarah Davis, known online as DJ_Dave, began her career by writing code that generated music rather than pressing…
AI Music
Music
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
The Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has made four large datasets of music used for training artificial intelligence models…