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• The AI version of the Weeknd and I are now BFFs — deal with it

  Spotify has created an AI-powered microsite that lets you hear the Weeknd's thoughts on your listening habits. I checked ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This site tracks trending TikTok songs -- and it's amazing

  While TikTok has a lot of memes and sketches, music-based videos are a large part of the platform. It gave a push to hits such as Lil Nas X's Old Town Road, Drake's Toosie Slide, and Jawsh 685's Laxed (SIREN BEAT). It might not be possible to know all the trending songs on ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Watch: Deepfakes Jay-Z raps the Navy SEAL copypasta meme to live jazz music

  My editor-in-chief dared me to pull a bunch of random topics out of a hat and write a compelling tech story about them. Here's what I got: Jay-Z, neural networks, the US Navy SEALs, and jazz music. Luckily for me, I happened across this video featuring a group of talented jazz ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook built a powerful AI model to simulate entire social media networks in action

  When it comes to live-fire high-wire acts in the tech industry, there can be few endeavors more daunting than executing a security update to a software platform hosting more than 2.6 billion users. But that's exactly what Facebook does every time it rolls out an update. Sure, it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Swizz Beatz and Timbaland on the challenges of streaming live music battles during a pandemic

  Verzuz, a live-streaming internet show created by legendary producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, is a bonafide phenomenon. Like Tiger King and Animal Crossing, it's one of those things that's both entertained and connected millions (or, in Verzuz' case billions) of people stuck in ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Confetti, koalas, and candles of love: Backstage at Eurovision's AI song contest

  Eurovision may have been cancelled by the coronavirus, but an AI song contest went ahead in the place. Here's how it went ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Streaming service Deezer built an AI to catch the explicit lyrics human censors miss

  Streaming service Deezer has developed an AI technique that automatically detects explicit lyrics -- just by analyzing ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI creates entire songs complete with music, lyrics, and vocals

  OpenAI today introduced 'Jukebox,' an open-source AI system for generating novel music complete with lyrics and vocals. Simply put, it's the most impressive music-writing AI we've seen yet. Jukebox was trained on massive datasets of music across nearly every genre so that it can ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Steinberg's Stay Home Elements Collection lets budding musicians try pro software for 60 days

  You can now try Cubase, Dorico, and WaveLab Elements for 60 days instead of 30. You'll also have access to Steinberg's Absolute ...

  • Napier Lopez

• This AI wrote such emo lyrics that humans thought it was My Chemical Romance

  AI lyrics created by a  text-generating machine called GPT-2 are so emo that people think they were written by My Chemical ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to hide songs on other people's Spotify playlists

  Spotify rolled out a small update that allows you to hide songs on other users' playlists. It's a small change, but could ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Stuck at home? Here are our favorite internet radio stations from all over the world

  Most of us are stuck inside right now, and for very good reason. Before I start complaining about how the ubiquity of sourdough ...

  • Georgina Ustik