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Benoit Carre, a composer of AI-assisted music, says that there’s no “big red button” yet to generate ready-made songs, but he ticks off what artificial intelligence tools can do already: Create song snippets in various genres, imitate the styles of individual lyricists, and adopt the vocal timbres of particular singers.

Spotify has never turned an annual profit; it seems to be in “perennial start-up mode,” as music royalties expert Phil Bird recently put it. The firm seems to be pursuing an alternative course, disrupting its own core product by folding into a new kind of tech offering pitched as the “Spotify machine” to investors. Here's why Spotify needs ...

FTX's former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities on Monday, after weeks of making public statements and apologising for his role in the collapse of the crypto exchange. Here's why Sam Bankman-Fried’s apology is as hollow as his empire, and why it deserves as much value as the FTT token that once propped up his empire.

OneWeb announced its decision to merge with France’s Eutelsat on Tuesday, as part of the firm’s plan to create a “European champion” to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper. Overall, though, this plan looks like a microcosm of the current geopolitical environment — and the kind of corporate strategies getting a ...

DeFi and Degrowth have emerged as alternative utopian narratives to capitalism. However, both lack some basic lessons. While degrowthers ignore the natural urge for status and advancement, DeFiers ignore the natural urge of bad actors to exploit unregulated systems.

With the cryptocurrency worlds luminaries having joined globetrotting elites at Davos and punters swept up in the market crash suffering sleepless nights its time for regulators to reflect on the real-world impact of the next boom-and-bust crypto cycle.

The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of Chinas "FUD" (internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt).

It wouldn't be the first time that Europe's smartest and most promising tech startups have been gobbled up by the behemoths of Silicon Valley and Seattle.

The future of the tech industry was once decided by messianic entrepreneurs pumping out their sermons to rapt crowds in cavernous arenas.

The forthcoming European parliamentary election was meant to be Facebook's big chance to please a constituency that trashes it on a regular basis: Politicians.

Spotify Technology wants the European Union to probe Apple over the 30 percent cut of paid subscriptions that it takes from App Store vendors.

For many people, it probably sounds a little rich to hear the European Union accuse Silicon Valley of being a graveyard of innovation.

Where does it go from here? True believers are betting on a simple repeat of past asset bubbles, like dot-com stocks or real estate.

Benoit Carre, a composer of AI-assisted music, says that there’s no “big red button” yet to generate ready-made songs, but he ticks off what artificial intelligence tools can do already: Create song snippets in various genres, imitate the styles of individual lyricists, and adopt the vocal timbres of particular singers.

Spotify has never turned an annual profit; it seems to be in “perennial start-up mode,” as music royalties expert Phil Bird recently put it. The firm seems to be pursuing an alternative course, disrupting its own core product by folding into a new kind of tech offering pitched as the “Spotify machine” to investors. Here's why Spotify needs ...

FTX's former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities on Monday, after weeks of making public statements and apologising for his role in the collapse of the crypto exchange. Here's why Sam Bankman-Fried’s apology is as hollow as his empire, and why it deserves as much value as the FTT token that once propped up his empire.

OneWeb announced its decision to merge with France’s Eutelsat on Tuesday, as part of the firm’s plan to create a “European champion” to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper. Overall, though, this plan looks like a microcosm of the current geopolitical environment — and the kind of corporate strategies getting a ...

DeFi and Degrowth have emerged as alternative utopian narratives to capitalism. However, both lack some basic lessons. While degrowthers ignore the natural urge for status and advancement, DeFiers ignore the natural urge of bad actors to exploit unregulated systems.

With the cryptocurrency worlds luminaries having joined globetrotting elites at Davos and punters swept up in the market crash suffering sleepless nights its time for regulators to reflect on the real-world impact of the next boom-and-bust crypto cycle.

The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of Chinas "FUD" (internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt).

It wouldn't be the first time that Europe's smartest and most promising tech startups have been gobbled up by the behemoths of Silicon Valley and Seattle.

The future of the tech industry was once decided by messianic entrepreneurs pumping out their sermons to rapt crowds in cavernous arenas.

The forthcoming European parliamentary election was meant to be Facebook's big chance to please a constituency that trashes it on a regular basis: Politicians.

Spotify Technology wants the European Union to probe Apple over the 30 percent cut of paid subscriptions that it takes from App Store vendors.

For many people, it probably sounds a little rich to hear the European Union accuse Silicon Valley of being a graveyard of innovation.

Where does it go from here? True believers are betting on a simple repeat of past asset bubbles, like dot-com stocks or real estate.