Artificial Intelligence

This week a fake band found real traction on Spotify, but behind one “stunt” is a realisation that synthetic content is already everywhere, and that platform owners and marketplaces are likely to embrace it. Where bands go, will brands follow?

Three new legal developments have shown that expected intellectual property defences against AI training might stand on shaky foundations. What’s next?

What happens when industries staffed by a revolving door of insiders see their tools land in the hands of everyone else?

From lawsuits to cloned CEOs, this week offered a snapshot of AI’s accelerating reach into law, labour, education, and brand identity.

This week, the world’s tech giants got up on stage to talk agents, frontier models, new modalities, AI assistants and wearables, but the real progress is arguably happening behind the scenes where AI is getting faster, cheaper, more local - and consequently harder to ignore.