Journals

Maya Perez / WebProNews: Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made  —  Bandcamp has banned music substantially generated by… Read More »Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips  —  Chinese AI startup Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd. released a… Read More »Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Iain Martin / Forbes: Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents  —  San Francisco-based Checkr, which got its start running criminal… Read More »Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use  —  Actor plans to use trademarks of himself… Read More »Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

Pew Research Center: Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban  —  Schools nationwide are cracking… Read More »Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (Pew Research Center)

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component  —  TAIPEI/TOKYO — It looks something like heavy-duty plastic wrap and is… Read More »Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout  —  Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now offering free Starlink satellite service in Iran… Read More »Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)

Aishwarya Jain / Reuters: Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+  —  Defense Unicorns, which is a software provider to the U.S.… Read More »Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)

The Information: Source details how Apple’s Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more  —  In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that… Read More »Source details how Apple’s Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)

Bloomberg: Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia’s H200 chips and AMD’s MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis  —  The Trump administration moved closer to allowing Nvidia Corp. to sell its H200… Read More »Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia’s H200 chips and AMD’s MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (Bloomberg)