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Ed Newton-Rex / Music Business Worldwide: It’s time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don’t license training data  —  The following MBW Views op/ed comes from Ed Newton-Rex (pictured inset), CEO of the ethical generative AI non-profit, Fairly Trained.

Thanga and his team have sketched a system that would use solar panels and batteries to provide the power to push temperatures inside a lava tube down to the deep freeze needed to create their lunar ark. This is the defining difference between Thanga’s design and Hagedorn’s thought experiment. Where Thanga’s group would aim to actively cool the ark, Hagedorn …

Earlier this year, Australia agreed to invest nearly AUD $1 billion in U.S.-based quantum start-up PsiQuantum in an effort to become the first country to own a commercial-scale quantum computer. The technology is expected to be operational by 2027. “This investment marks the start of a manufacturing and production partnership that will create hundreds of local high-skilled jobs,” the Australian …

The new horror movie “AfrAId” shows that malicious AI is now the go-to villain for Hollywood and our nightmares.

Tech platforms and governments are in a standoff.

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Yelp has filed a federal suit against Google, citing monopolistic practices in local search. The review site would like to see Google forced to prioritize the best results for users, even if those don’t come from Google itself. Yelp hopes that its efforts will see the court level the playing field for companies competing …

Jordan Novet / CNBC: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours  —  MongoDB shares jumped as much as 16% in extended trading on Thursday after the database software maker reported healthy fiscal second-quarter earnings and pushed up full-year guidance.

You’re done! This fold isn’t always super neat, but it’s fast and easy, and is a good enough fold to easily see and store your sheets. Especially for sheets I’m storing in a storage bag—more on those below—and with the sheer volume of sheets in my home, I’m happy with good enough. Ultimately, if you’re stressed about folding your sheets, …

New research shows that the APAC region is poised to set the pace for the next wave of mobile technology. The Global Mobile Suppliers Association has predicted that APAC will lead the global 6G mobile network rollout in the next decade, as telecommunications operators in the region innovate and outpace some of their more conservative counterparts in other parts of …

The bill, which seeks to make companies liable if their artificial intelligence harms people, is at the center of a debate over how to regulate the technology.