UMG and ElevenLabs will build a consumer platform for remixes and mashups from licensed catalog, the AI audio company's first agreement with a major label.
Google's native Gemini app for Windows opens over any application with Alt+Space, connects to Gmail and Drive, and is available globally on Windows 10 and 11.
Mistral AI closed a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics — the largest equity round in European tech.
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.5 with up to 50% lower latency, a Sketch drawing canvas, templates, pinned comments and two new API models.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 40-second scene extension, first and last frame control, video references and 4K upscaling, plus 360p drafts at a third the cost.
Stability AI raised $76 million from Universal, Sony, Warner, EA and AMD Ventures, lifting total funding to $232 million as label deals turn into equity.
Pew Research analyzed nearly half a million Common Crawl pages and found 35% of post-ChatGPT pages show AI authorship signals, concentrated on .com domains.
Five US agencies say attackers are using AI coding assistants and the open source snap7 library to build tools that read and write Siemens S7 controller memory.
Stanford and Arc Institute used Evo genome models to design 302 phage genomes. Sixteen produced working viruses that killed E. coli, some faster than phiX174.