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Spotify is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’

September 24, 2026
Spotify is giving listeners a new tool to shape the recommendations it delivers to their app’s Home feed. The music streaming giant on Wednesday began rolling out a feature called “Taste Profile” to its Premium subscribers in the U.S. that allows users to see, for the first time, how Spotify understands their taste across music and other audio. Users can request changes using…
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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction

September 23, 2026
Frontier AI labs are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving artificial intelligence, and they’ve put their money where their mouths are, to the tune of trillions of dollars of planned data center projects. The rest of us? Surveys of public opinion say that more than 60% of Americans favor limiting new data centers, particularly in their communities. And the…
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch

September 22, 2026
Meta’s latest AI app, Muse, could be the social giant’s next major hit, new data suggests. According to just- released estimates from market intelligence provider Apptopia, Muse’s app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times during its first 12 days on the market than ChatGPT was in the 12 days after its debut. (This data compares the U.S. and Canada markets only.) Muse…
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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

September 21, 2026
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President Donald Trump’s claims that the AI backlash is a hoax and regulation is unnecessary. On the latest episode of…
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