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SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and 7 from Vision Fund 2 into a new holding company called SoftBank Robotics Group (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/softbank/beyond-pepper-softba…

Beyond Pepper: SoftBank charts new course in robotics with AI
Group puts robot investments under one holding company to coordinate strategy

Spotify hebt international die Preise an
Spotify erhöht seine Abopreise in mehreren Ländern weltweit. Ob die Preise auch in Deutschland steigen, ist noch unklar.
https://www.heise.de/news/Spotify-heb…

The AI music problem on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) is worse than you think
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the

The AI music problem on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) is worse than you think
Aventhis, who doesn’t exist, has over a million monthly Spotify listeners. Everything appears to be in order – but it’s not.

Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown
“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

«Unraivelling» de Muse. Una canción de rock con harto sintetizador que me recordó a la época ochentera de Rush. Es adelanto de un nuevo disco que serš lanzado el 2026. Me gustó harto👌🏻
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Df0RNShcnfIJmrRoJ6Gc9

Officially moved to TIDAL from Spotify now. Fuck Spotify.

A book excerpt details Spotify's decade-long push against Apple's App Store commissions and steering rules, including pushing the EU to pass new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/spotify-apple-dig

Dienstag: Elon Musk macht ein Schnäppchen, Lyft und Baidu kooperieren in Europa
Tesla-Chef erhält Aktienpaket Robotaxi-Service für Europa Von der Leyens SMS bleiben verschwunden DSL-Abschaltung soll warten Spotify erhöht die Preise

Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought $330M worth of TSMC stock; a source says Vision Fund monetized ~$2B of assets in H1 2025 (Min Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/openai-lets-chatgpt-users-connec…