You can now request songs from Spotify DJ in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese too

Spotify is expanding its DJ feature in beta to Premium users in over 75 markets and adding four new languages, French, so more listeners can make voice requests in their own language.

Google pulls the plug on Project Mariner, the AI agent that browsed the web like a human

Google has shut down Project Mariner, the AI browser agent that navigated websites by processing screenshots in real time. Its core features are moving into the Gemini API and Gemini Agent.

Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds

A new study from researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, and UCLA found that even brief AI use can hurt your ability to problem-solve once the tool is taken away.

Unsolved AI Mystery Is Solved Along With Lessons Learned On Why ChatGPT Became Oddly Obsessed With Gremlins And Goblins

ChatGPT and GPT-5 kept mentioning gremlins and goblins. We now know why. Vital lessons to be had. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility tha…

Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… What’s the best way to […]

ChatGPT Trend Has Users Requesting ‘Clumsy, Scribbly And Pathetic’ AI Images

Who needs high-quality AI-generated images when you can get horrible ones? A prompt shared by Sam Altman goes viral, with results looking like something out of MS Paint.

Analyzing That Controversial Super Prompt For Controlling AI That Billionaire Marc Andreessen Posted

Billionaire Marc Andreessen posted his personal custom instruction that he uses with AI. Controversy ensued. I unpack the prompt for you. An AI Insider analysis/scoop.

These Robot Hands Can Literally Make You An Egg Scramble Breakfast

“There are literally zero robot hands deployed right now doing routine work, … the best hands are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they break all the time.”

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.