3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (343+ words) Welcome to a post-AI world. For all the debates around the ethics and suitability of AI in the music industry, the major labels are no longer standing on the sidelines. They’re all in. Just one day after Warner Music Group…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (331+ words) The flip phone is officially back, baby. Apple has unveiled its first foldable iPhone, seven years after rival Samsung launched its own foldable device. Apple has dubbed its new folding phone the “iPhone Duo”, and it’s the first major product…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (336+ words) AI remains a contentious topic among music circles, but Warner Music Group has decided to keep their friends close but their enemies closer. Suno, an AI music generator which was sued for copyright infringement by major record labels Warner, Sony…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (108+ words) Happy Mag The ATH-AL5NC pairs 53mm open-back drivers with Bluetooth and up to 75 hours of playback, available now via Audio-Technica. Audio-Technica has built its first wireless open-back headphones, the ATH-AL5NC, an unusual combination given open-back designs let sound travel in and…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (345+ words) Heritage brand Roland has officially released Melody Flip, an AI-powered melody-generation plugin built with research from Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories. The release finds itself in a music industry mildly allergic to anything AI-shaped, making Roland’s “ethical AI” framing feel more…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (146+ words) In a stark Geneva address, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk declared artificial intelligence an “existential” threat, demanding ironclad safeguards before the technology spirals beyond human control. Turk, beginning his second term, condemned Russia’s use of autonomous drones in Ukraine…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Telefunken TF39 Copperhead Deluxe takes the Copperhead sound and gives you three ways to aim it. It is a large-diaphragm tube condenser built around a New Old Stock General Electric 5654W valve, and the Deluxe adds switchable cardioid, omnidirectional and figure…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (160+ words) OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, a breakthrough AI system that the company calls its most intelligent and aligned model to date. The new system achieves unprecedented scores across benchmarks, including a 98% on advanced mathematics and 99.9% on the ARC-AGI-3 reasoning test....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (216+ words) Not long ago, the two companies were working together to bring ChatGPT into Apple products. Now Apple is accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, and potentially destroying the evidence needed to prove it. The latest shenanigans centre on a MacBook…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (206+ words) Interestingly, this isn’t really a copyright case. The musicians argue Suno has built a system capable of recognising artists by name and generating music that draws on their distinctive voices, styles and other identifiable traits. According to the filing, typing…...