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AI News
Aug 13, 2026 23

Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a ba...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 27

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Resea...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 27

I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere ...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 20

Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 28

Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report

The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 28

Does Google even want to win at AI?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech i...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 24

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, ...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 23

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 31

Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping

Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent ca...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 26

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were u...

Research
Aug 13, 2026 24

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

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AI News
Aug 12, 2026 28

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.