Tue. 06/25 – AI Music Startups Get The Napster Treatment

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product bundling. Google wants you to build your own AI celebrity. Amazon wants to go at ChatGPT directly. And two hella-interesting and hella-big AI raises.

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Links:

• Major record labels sue AI company behind ‘BBL Drizzy’ (The Verge)
• EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over Teams (FT)
• Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago (Bloomberg)
• Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay (Bloomberg)
• Google Develops Challenger to Meta’s Chatbots and Character.AI (The Information)
• Amazon is secretly working on a ChatGPT killer (Business Insider)
• Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model (TechCrunch)
• EvolutionaryScale lands $142 mln to advance AI in biology (Reuters)

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