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Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its "open infrastructure" from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/899034/google-android-aut…

Google’s Android Automotive is moving from the dashboard to the ‘brain’ of the car
Google announced Android Automotive OS for Software Defined Vehicles for non-safety parts of the car’s internal computer system.

Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883307/google-producerai-deal-music

This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
The AI-powered music-making platform ProducerAI is joining Google. As part of the deal, ProducerAI will use Google’s Lyria AI model.

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"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/883852/discord-age-verification-…

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout
Discord will delay a planned global rollout of age verification for accounts accessing restricted content, promising more options and transparency.

Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on AI impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/898715/su

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the difference between attribution and impersonation — and what AI companies should owe creators.

Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883307/google-producerai-deal-music

This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
The AI-powered music-making platform ProducerAI is joining Google. As part of the deal, ProducerAI will use Google’s Lyria AI model.

Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on AI impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/898715/su

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the difference between attribution and impersonation — and what AI companies should owe creators.

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882891/ai-pdf-parsing…

How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?
For all of the AI industry’s advancements, the major models like ChatGPT and Claude still struggle with PDFs, one of the oldest and ubiquitous file formats.

Discord says it "ran a limited test of Persona in the UK" to verify user ages and "that test has since concluded", distancing itself from Persona amid backlash (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878369/discord-persona-age-verificatio…

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash
Discord has removed references to testing Persona age verification in the UK.