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Amazon denies report it's shutting down Wondery podcast studio

Amazon denies report it's shutting down Wondery podcast studio: Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube. Read More

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content: Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI. Read More

Spotify raises subscription prices: Spotify is raising prices for users in some international markets after a rough quarterly earnings report. Read More

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping: Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages. Read More

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