Sony’s new tech can sniff out original songs in plagiarized AI-generated music

Sony has built new tech that can spot real, copyrighted songs inside AI-generated music, helping artists see how much their work influenced AI tracks and potentially get paid for it.
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Japanese toilet maker ‘the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary,’ investors claim — shares up nearly 40% in first two months of 2026

A company most famous for toilets and bidets is seeing meteoric stock growth due to demand for its advanced ceramics products.
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Here are the 17 US-based AI companies that have raised $100m or more in 2026

Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026 with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more.

IBM triples entry-level hires for 2026 despite AI adoption, bucking industry trends — Chief HR officer says that AI can do most entry-level jobs, but work still requires a human touch

IBM is tripling its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to a new report. This stands in stark contrast to many of the country’s largest firms, especially in the tech world, which have conducted large-scale la…

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

Not long ago, Peter Steinberger was experimenting with a side project that quickly caught fire across the developer world. His open-source AI assistant, OpenClaw, wasn’t just another chatbot; it could act on your behalf, from managing emails to integra…

Austrian creator of viral OpenClaw joins OpenAI

The Austrian creator of the popular open-source AI assistant OpenClaw is joining US frontier lab OpenAI, in a move some see as a blow to the European tech ecosystem. OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Al…

Legora and Tandem Health CEOs reject Anthropic and OpenAI threat

The CEOs of two prominent Swedish AI startups have rejected suggestions that well-funded US frontier AI labs are threats to their business models. Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of AI legaltech s…

I tested the most affordable Copilot+ laptop I could find and it surprised me

The Asus Vivobook is one of the most affordable laptops with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon silicon and a Copilot+ badge for AI chops. It’s a utilitarian workhorse that occasionally stumbles, but gets the job done.
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OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks

The Unified Memory architecture used by Apple Macs and MacBooks make it the ideal device for locally run agentic AI, driving demand for high-memory models and increasing order lead times to more than a month.
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NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover
NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI waypoints on two separate days, traveling a total o…