Since 2012, Granta has used the Commonwealth Short Story Prize to spotlight emerging writers across regions of the former British Commonwealth. The magazine’s annual selection has become a kind of literary weather vane: it signals which voices are gaining momentum,…
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have struck a licensing deal that will let Spotify users generate AI covers and remixes using UMG’s catalog. On paper, it sounds like a straightforward “creator tool” story: give listeners more ways to interact…
Samsung’s memory-chip workforce has reached a tentative agreement with the company after weeks of escalating pressure that included strike threats—an outcome that underscores how quickly labor negotiations in South Korea’s semiconductor industry are being reshaped by the AI-driven demand cycle.…
The courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI has ended the way many observers probably feared—and others hoped it wouldn’t: not with a sweeping legal ruling on the merits, but with all charges dismissed because the claims…
University commencement used to be a ritual of optimism: families in their best clothes, graduates in caps and gowns, and a speaker tasked with turning a personal milestone into a shared promise about the future. In 2026, that script has…
Spotify has struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group that could reshape how fans interact with music—and how the music industry thinks about AI. According to the report, the agreement will allow Spotify Premium subscribers to create AI-generated song…
Google’s search experience has been changing for a while, but the latest shift feels different—not just incremental tweaks to ranking or layout, but a noticeable re-centering of what “search” is supposed to do. For everyday users, the practical effect is…
In a move that underscores how tightly US artificial intelligence policy is now tied to internal politics and geopolitical competition, President Donald Trump reportedly postponed an AI-related executive order just hours before it was due to be signed. The delay,…
President Trump has delayed signing an executive order aimed at tightening AI security, choosing not to move forward with a draft that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models. The decision, according to comments associated with the…
Polyend’s Endless is the kind of product that makes you pause and ask a question you didn’t know you were asking: what would it even mean for an AI system to behave like a guitar pedal? At $299, Polyend’s answer…
Nvidia’s latest earnings update arrived with the kind of polish investors have come to expect from the world’s most valuable chipmaker: revenue that beat expectations, guidance that landed above the consensus, and a capital-return signal that sounded almost like a…
Spotify has just taken a major step toward making generative AI feel less like a novelty and more like a normal part of music listening. In a licensing deal announced with Universal Music Group (UMG), the streaming giant says it…