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Spotify’s exclusive podcast days are over as Joe Rogan’s show expands to other platforms
By techtost.com
Controversy and PR headaches weren’t enough to keep Spotify from renewing its deal with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show for the past two years has caused…
Reliance-backed Viacom18 has reached a deal to buy 60 percent of Disney’s India unit, the WSJ reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources, paving a path for…
Deep fake Taylor Swift, Google releases a new AI-powered tool, ImageFX, to create images. Powered by Imagen 2, a GenAI image model developed by Google’s DeepMind…
As GenAI tools begin to transform the music industry in incredible — and in some cases morally problematic — ways, Google is ramping up its investment…
Universal Music Group (UMG), the company that represents artists including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, says it will pull its music from TikTok at…
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at its Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions
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Three months after completing its $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees in its gaming divisions. That’s about 8.6%…
Taylor Swift’s non-consensual deepfake porn went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of thousands…
Sony called off a merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year consultation on the takeover that would have created a…
The EU is calling for laws to force greater algorithmic transparency from music streaming platforms
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The European Parliament is call for new rules that will bring more fairness and transparency to music streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new…
YouTube is following in the footsteps of Netflix by deciding not to release a dedicated app for the upcoming release of Apple Vision Pro. Like Netflix…